ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...

Distance from Jupiter: Europa is Jupiter's sixth satellite. Its orbital distance from Jupiter is 414,000 miles (670,900 km). It takes Europa three and a half Earth days to orbit Jupiter.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian ...

A NASA spacecraft flew by Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, on Thursday to collect information about one of the most intriguing ocean worlds in our solar system. The Juno mission’s first image ...

Well, this is very cool news: Astronomers have pretty much confirmed the presence of sodium chloride — table salt — on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa! This is cool for many reasons ...

Most of us have a very special place for Europa in our hearts. Physically, this is the second closest of the Galilean satellites and Jupiter’s sixth closest moon; it is also the smallest of the ...

Once the spacecraft reaches Jupiter in 2030, it will orbit the planet and begin making 49 close flybys of Europa in the spring of 2031, according to NASA. Space Rare comet to streak across night sky.

NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand how habitable Jovian satellite, with its vast salty ocean wrapped in a thick ice crust ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. Monday, beginning a nearly six-year, 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter, where it will study the frozen moon Europa, scanning below its ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is believed to have a subsurface ocean deep beneath its frozen crust. Without tidal heating, such a thing may not be possible based on how far away Jupiter is from the Sun.

Later this year, NASA will send it to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, to determine if life can exist there. You can get a closer look at the Europa Clipper spacecraft here .

New evidence of water plumes found on Jupiter's moon Europa 00:42. A review of data captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft as it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s indicates it likely flew through a ...