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

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond Earth, with a large subsurface ocean thought to ...

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

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

Nasa's hunt for life on Jupiter's ice moon Europa is "likely" to be in vain, as any sign of life is looking increasingly unlikely. Researchers at Washington University in St Louis have concluded that ...

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

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is thought to ...

Scientists are proposing a new source of fuel for potential alien life on Europa: Radioactive elements seeping out of rocks and into the moon’s ocean, where it could generate enough energy to support ...