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.

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

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

A new system capable of identifying complex molecular signatures could aid in the search for alien life in the universe and could even lead to the creation of new forms of life in the laboratory, ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...