"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

A new study from geophysicists at Washington State University sheds light on how nutrients could travel from the surface of Europa into the moon's ...

For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

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Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively, have evidence of oceans beneath their crusts. A NASA experiment suggests -- if these oceans support life -- signatures of that life ...

While there’s no concrete consensus on a list of prerequisites for life to evolve on other planets, there are at least a ...

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, appears as a thick crescent in this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 1995. The view combines images taken in violet ...