sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter to find out if one of its moons hosts a habitable sub-surface ocean. Liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center took place at ...

Europa is an icy moon ... Jupiter hopes to discover on Europa According to Bonnie Buratti, the mission's deputy project scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientists are "looking for a ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

The mission's main objective is to investigate whether the moon is habitable. Its icy surface ... but will be much faster than traveling straight to Jupiter. Gravity assists have become common ...

The probe's destination is Europa, a moon of Jupiter coated with a shell of ice ... could indeed be habitable. Europa Clipper, with its massive solar arrays, spans the length of a basketball ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

JUICE - which stands for JUpiter ICy Moons Explorer ... The aim of the mission is to find out if any of the moons are habitable and can support life. There are scientific instruments on board ...

Jupiter has 53 named and 14 unnamed moons. This is a photo of Jupiter and ... Venus and Earth are very similar in size, but it is far less habitable - its surface temperature is 465°C, hot ...

This maneuver is designed to adjust the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a critical phase in its 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) trek to the Jupiter system. However ...