NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will perform 49 close flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon, where radiation levels reach 5,400 milliSieverts per day — lethal within hours. Beneath its frozen crust may lie a ...

Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — which could make it hard for nutrients to get down to its buried ocean.

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 ...

The NASA Juno mission has given deeper insights into the possible alien life on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and how it could lie ...

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But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...