A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...

"If life exists in Titan's ocean under the thick ice shell, any signs of life would need to be transported up Titan’s ice shell. This is more likely to occur if Titan's ice shell is warm and ...

Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears ... During its two flybys of Europa, JUICE will search for pockets of liquid water under Europa’s icy surface—which is suspected to hide ...

It’s possible that the small moon may have once held water, like Europa or Ganymede, as ice was once common in its part of the solar system. However, a combination of radiation from Jupiter and ...

The result shows that pancake electrons come from electrons trapped around Ganymede, confirming the existence of radiation belts around the icy moon! After a few orbits of Ganymede, particles from ...

Besides water, organic compounds are needed for life ... Ganymede and other possible ocean worlds Like Europa, Jupiter’s jumbo moon Ganymede is thought to host an underground ocean.

For Ganymede, Dexter got consumed by the idea that you could stand on the moon—the most habitable ... too far from Jupiter to have liquid water or exciting geology. “It’s a big dead ice ...