Possible plumes of water erupt from the 7 o'clock position in this composite image of Europa. Credit: NASA/ESA The high-powered Hubble Space Telescope has caught sight of something amazing on ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

that then got "picked up" by Jupiter's magnetic field as it swept past the moon. "Here, we report direct observations of H2+ and O2+ pickup ions from the dissociation of Europa's water-ice surface ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...

Join the Dallas Public Library staff for NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador Donn Anderson’s presentation on The Europa Clipper: ...

Io, Europa, and Ganymede offer a fascinating glimpse into the Jupiter system. Continued exploration will unveil more secrets about these eni ...

The Europa Clipper mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about the moon, which scientists believe could hold an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface. NASA is set ...

Three key ingredients are needed for life as we know it: essential elements like carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur; an energy source, and liquid water. Though Europa is only the size of our own moon ...

It’s possible that the small moon may have once held water, like Europa or Ganymede, as ice was once common in its part of the solar system. However, a combination of radiation from Jupiter and ...

NASA has captured the highest-resolution photo of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The image, which NASA released last week, showcases over 93 by 125 miles of surface region on the moon.