Jupiter's moon Europa is among the most promising places in the solar system for the search for life beyond Earth, with a large subsurface ocean thought to be hidden beneath an outer shell of ice.

Europa might not be the best place to look for alien life in the solar system after all. A new study modeling what the floor of the Jupiter moon's hidden ocean is like concluded that tectonic activity ...

WASHINGTON -- Scientists said they have found evidence of water in the atmosphere of Jupiter's icy moon "Europa." NASA said its Hubble space telescope observed the presence of persistent water vapor ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured the highest resolution photo yet of Jupiter’s moon Europa, giving scientists an up-close view of "a puzzling region of the moon’s heavily fractured icy crust." ...

Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the transport of nutrients to the deep ocean under Europa’s exterior surface. Europa, a ...

Laboratory experiments have re-created the surface of Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter, with a surprising result — Europa glows in the dark. While we typically see the side of Europa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A VIEW of Jupiter After modeling Europa's conditions, the researchers concluded that its rocky seafloor is likely mechanically too ...