Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, a leading candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life, has a surface dotted with enigmatic ...

NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

The launch is set to occur no earlier than 12:42 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Europa is unique in the solar system because it possesses liquid water, organic compounds on its icy surface, and energy from Jupiter’s strong gravitational pull ...

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

Europa has long been the darling of the search for life beyond Earth. The reason is simple: beneath its cracked, icy shell ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

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

The Council today renewed the targeted restrictive measures imposed by the EU against those responsible for actions ...