NASA's Europa Clipper probe is finally on its way to the icy ocean moon of Jupiter, but it's going to take some time to get there — about six years. Fortunately, we don't have to wait that long ...

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 ...

"The narrow-angle camera will be able to take pictures at a resolution as ... "We know of our Earth as an ocean world, but Europa is representative of a new class of ocean worlds, icy worlds ...

Three of Jupiter’s moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are home to large, underground oceans of liquid water that could support life. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Artwork: Europa Clipper will try to determine whether the moon can support biology Scientists working on an audacious mission to the ocean world of Europa can proceed with the final design and ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won't search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there ...

The mission aims to investigate whether the moon, believed to have a subsurface ocean, could support life. Europa is considered one of the most promising places to search for life beyond Earth.