One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

While six spacecraft have visited and imaged Europa since it became one of the first moons found beyond Earth, the best evidence of a subsurface ocean was gathered by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft ...

Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts captured the first close-up images, and then in 1995 Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft flew past Europa taking some deeply puzzling pictures. They showed a surface riddled ...

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Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...

NASA’s former Galileo spacecraft still holds the Europa flyby record, passing within 351 kilometers in 2000.

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

Images of the icy moons acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft between 1996 and 2003 have shown how diverse the geological and tectonic processes driven from within are. These have created a wide ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered a good place to ... Amalthea, however, is tricky to spot even when you have a spacecraft. NASA's Galileo mission imaged Amalthea in 1999.

“Their discovery is credited to Galileo, but they were possibly ... musical counterpoint to both NASA’s $4.25 billion Europa Clipper mission, due to launch next year, and ESA’s $1.7 billion ...