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

While there’s no concrete consensus on a list of prerequisites for life to evolve on other planets, there are at least a ...

After modeling Europa's conditions, the researchers concluded that its rocky seafloor is likely mechanically too strong to ...

A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to ...

Does Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, contain the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and ...

A new study suggests Jupiter's moon Europa may be 'dead,' lacking the geologic activity for life, just as interstellar ...

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

New findings about Jupiter’s moon is raising new doubts about life in spaceEuropa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has always sat a little to the side of the .

Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.