Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

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

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 ...

The Voyagers provided the first detailed photos of Europa but from quite a distance. NASA’s Galileo spacecraft had repeated flybys of the moon during the 1990s, passing as close as 124 miles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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“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 ...