People have long since wondered if any other planets in our solar system could house us and other life forms, and after decades of research, NASA thinks it might have found one: Europa, Jupiter's ...

Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 kilometres. However, as of April 2023, we know it is also home to 91 additional small satellites.

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NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself as it makes its way to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's ...

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NASA is all prepared to send its spacecraft Europa Clipper to Jupiter and its moon Europa where it will try to find life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper is expected to look below the icy crust of the ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

The spacecraft's journey to the Jovian system will be complex, covering at least 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometres) before reaching Jupiter in April 2030. The gas giant is located ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry in Wind Cave, South Dakota, means that, under an ultraviolet (UV ...