On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

A new study is skeptical that life could still be present on Jupiter's moon Europa, where a NASA spacecraft launched in Florida is bound.

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond Earth, with a large subsurface ocean thought to ...

New models suggest that Europa has very little tectonic activity at its seafloor, which is potentially catastrophic news for ...

The moon is pretty inhospitable to humans, but recent research has found that it's surprisingly possible for breathable air ...

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is thought to ...

Methane released in exhaust could move from one lunar pole to the other in less than two lunar days, with roughly half of it eventually depositing in areas that may preserve the original chemical ...