NASA's about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring voluminous seas. Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter's moon Europa contains an ocean at least twice the size of Earth's. The Europa ...

What kind of mission would be best suited to sample the plumes of Saturn's ocean world, Enceladus, to determine if this ...

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Europa. The name of Jupiter's icy moon has spread around the world as a hopeful candidate for life elsewhere in our solar system. If it's there, a new NASA-funded research alliance called Oceans ...

If life exists deep within Europa, sunlight would be hard to come by. The moon’s icy shell is thought to be over six miles thick, with an ocean lying beneath that stretches over 60 miles into ...

Energy-rich compounds there could reach the ocean ... world beneath. JOHN TOMANIO, MATTHEW TWOMBLEY, XAQUÍN G.V., VITOMIR ZARKOVIC, NGM STAFF. DEVELOPMENT: SWORDSWEEPER INDUSTRIES. EUROPA OPENING ...