Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Europa and Ganymede, with both presenting evidence of subsurface oceans circulating beneath their icy crusts. Venturing closer to the sun and inside the main asteroid belt orbits the dwarf planet ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, the European Space Agency's JUICE ... perhaps, life beyond our planet. Subsurface oceans, like the one potentially present on Callisto, can influence magnetic fields in ...

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

Europa is one of the closest moons of the gas giant Jupiter. Scientists believe that there is a subsurface ocean beneath Europa's icy shell that contains more water than all of Earth's oceans ...

"Europa Clipper is actually a habitability ... Pair that with the increasing likelihood of a subsurface ocean, and though it's still far from a sure thing, that's enough evidence to justify ...

A large subsurface ocean, spanning approximately 20 million ... Saturn's Titan and Jupiter's Europa—and their potential to harbor life. More information: Colin R. Meyer et al, A Potential ...