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 ...

With the tight launch window looming, NASA rushed to conduct tests to verify that the electronic parts could survive the $5 billion mission to determine whether the suspected ocean beneath Europa ...

Underground oceans are intriguing, but not unusual. They exist on Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, three of Jupiter's largest moons, and Enceladus, Titan and Mimas at Saturn. Underground oceans ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...