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 ...

Scientists believe a global ocean lies beneath Europa's icy crust, which may contain twice as much liquid as Earth's oceans and the ingredients for life. Throughout its mission, the spacecraft ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

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SEE ALSO: Cassini Finds Evidence of a Hidden Ocean on Saturn's Moon ... for our understanding of the world. Researchers have long-thought that Europa's sea could play host to microbial life ...

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 ...

Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus. That's why the best way to search for ...