On 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

Galileo discovered it orbiting Jupiter in 1610, demonstrating in the process that the Earth might not be the center of the universe. Beneath Europa’s frozen shell is a liquid salt-water ocean ...

To take the guided tour of Europa, visit trek.nasa.gov/europa, click on the "hamburger" icon on the top left of the screen, ...

Two previous NASA missions have sent spacecraft to orbit the Jupiter system and collected data on these moons. The Galileo mission orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 and led to geological ...

Europa Clipper, the largest planetary science mission ever launched by NASA, will travel 1.8 billion miles and spend four years orbiting Jupiter's icy moon.

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Ganymede, Io and Callisto. What type of life might Europa harbor? Besides water ...

Jupiter has 95 officially recognized moons, NASA says, though the actual number is probably much higher. It's four largest ...

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life.