The Europa Clipper mission, NASA's largest planetary science spacecraft to date, aims to determine if Jupiter's moon Europa possesses the necessary ingredients for life within its vast subsurface ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is a $5 billion mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, in search of life. Discover the groundbreaking engineering behind this spacecraft, from its radiation-proof ...

The drawing on the left depicts Enceladus and its ice-covered ocean, with cracks near the south pole that are believed to penetrate through the icy crust. The middle panel shows where authors ...

Galileo Galilei's telescopic discovery of Jupiter's four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

The search for life intensifies as NASA targets icy moons with subsurface oceans, like Europa and Enceladus, which may hold twice as much water as Earth’s oceans under thick ice layers.

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It is also one of the first to compare the composition and diversity in subsurface ecosystems below the land and ocean. Subsurface samples of bacteria and archaea (many of which could only be ...

It will carry nine science instruments and use them to study Europa's icy surface and its subsurface ocean to see whether the moon can support life. Europa Clipper is NASA's biggest-ever planetary ...