NASA scientists say images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014 suggest there may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. WSJ's Monika Auger reports.

However, unlike Saturn's moon Enceladus, where plumes are a predictable and common occurrence, Europa's plumes have been somewhat spotty, leading some researchers to doubt plumes exist at all on ...

This includes the ESA's JUpiter ICy moon's Explorer (JUICE ... attractive because of the nature of the plumes around its south pole. Whereas Europa also experiences plume activity, these are ...

Europa Clipper will now travel ... has since taken pictures of what might be plumes of water ejected 100 miles (160 kilometers) above the moon’s surface But none of those missions got close ...

Looking further into the future, scientists dream of even more ambitious missions. Some ideas include sending submarines into ...

Europa, Jupiter’s enigmatic moon, may hide a vast, icy ocean with double the water of Earth. First hinted at by NASA’s Galileo mission, this subsurface ocean holds tantalizing potential for life.

Though Europa is only the size of our own moon, it holds more water than all ... ocean as pieces of the crust slide under each other. Plumes and deep fissures may provide other routes into the ...

Europa Clipper Mission: US space agency NASA has launched a spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter’s moon, to ascertain if it can support life in the ocean beneath its icy shell. This USD 5 billion ...

Cassini first discovered evidence of a vast ocean on Enceladus by spotting plumes of water vapor jutting ... on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus.