This Tiny Robot Swims Like a Worm — and Could Explore Alien Oceans
Marine flatworms have perfected smooth, undulating motion over millions of years of evolution. Now, scientists have taken inspiration to create ...
Tag: Europa
Juice spacecraft detects life’s building blocks on Earth, prepares to do the same for Jupiter’s icy Moons
The ESA's probe found life on Earth. No comment on its intelligence.
ESA’s Icy moons mission is about to take an unprecedented shortcut to Jupiter
The Earth is about to be used as a sling.
Researchers spot five new hydrothermal vents that can help us study alien life
Hydrothermal vents are some of the most interesting geological phenomena on the planet.
NASA sends “message in a bottle” onboard spacecraft headed for ocean world
The Clipper's metal plate is much like the Voyager golden records meant to introduce planet Earth and its Earthlings to ...
There’s virtually no oxygen on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. What does this mean for the prospect of alien life?
Europa produces about 100 times less oxygen than previously estimated.
This snake-like robot will help us explore the depths of icy worlds like Europa
JPL has developed a versatile, autonomous robot for planetary exploration.
NASA wants to build a swarm of tiny, wedge-shaped robots to look for life on faraway worlds
How to look for life on unfriendly bodies like Europa or Enceladus? Just make a bunch of swimmy robots and ...
Twinkle, twinkle, little … moon? Jupiter’s icy moon Europa glows in the dark, researchers find
As if Europa needed to get even cooler.
It’s official: There’s water on Jupiter’s moon Europa
This is one of the most important findings of the decade.
NASA mission to the moon Europa gets the green light
NASA approved early-stage plans for the mission.
Table salt found on Jupiter’s satellite Europa, sparks debate about potential life
A crucial ingredient for life was found on Europa.
Nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ could probe the depths of Europa’s oceans
Europa's almost as cold as your ex's heart, just as frozen.
Ice spikes on Europa could be threatening for future missions
An ice penitence in outer space.
Life may be teeming just inches beneath Europa’s frozen surface
An exciting new study entertains the possibility of alien life on Jupiter's icy moon.
NASA shuttle finds evidence of water plumes on Europa — sparking more hopes signs of life
This could be huge for our search of extraterrestrial life.
Salty, subglacial lakes in Canada could be key for studying aliens
This would allow us to gain a new understanding of extraterrestrial life.
Europa’s tectonics might be powered by salt, could sustain life on the moon
Different causes, same effect.
All the ingredients for alien life: NASA finds hydrogen spewing out of Saturn’s icy moon, likely propelled from hydro-thermal vents
Both Enceladus and Europa seem capable of supporting alien life, according to a major NASA announcement.
NASA’s mission to search for life on Europa takes shape
If we want to look for extraterrestrial life, Europa might be one of the best guesses in the solar system.
NASA finds more evidence of water plumes on Europa
Europa's water is acting up.
Jupiter’s moon Europa could have Earth-like oceans
If I asked you to guess where we have the best chances of finding life outside of Earth, you'd be ...
NASA presents toolkit to search for life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Sending a probe to look for alien life is just half of the work - it's the tools you send ...
NASA Plans Life-Searching Mission on Jupiter’s Satellite Europa
Jupiter's satellite Europa is definitely one of the most interesting places in our solar system - despite being really far ...
Jupiter’s Moon Europa found to have Plate Tectonics
Europa, Jupiter's icy moon is the only body in the Solar System found to have plate tectonics (besides Earth). A ...
Pluto’s Moon may have harbored underground ocean
The new NASA-funded study showed that if the icy surface of Pluto’s giant moon Charon is cracked, analyzing the fractures ...
Astronomers find 200 km high water plums spurting from Europa
Europa, Jupiter's satellite, has emerged as one of the top locations in the Solar System in terms of its potential ...
Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, could harbor life according to report
We've written extensively before about the life harboring possibilities of Jupiter's moon, the icy Europa. The moon is believed to ...
Life found in the 100.000 year old sediments of an Antarctic subglacial lake
Evidence of surprisingly diverse life forms have been found in the 100.000 year old sediments of a subglacial lake in ...
NASA receives funding for Europa mission
Few destinations in our solar systems are as likely to hold life as Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Even though ...
Tasting the surface of Europa
If you were to lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of ...
Jupiter’s moon Europa much more likely to host life – no mission planned yet
As the search for life on Mars intensifies, it's good to remember that there are other places in our own ...
Europe plans mission to Jupiter’s moons
An astrobiology mission to three of Jupiter's moons topped two rival astrophysics proposals to win European Space Agency (ESA) funding ...
[UPDATE] Europa is filled with shallow lakes under its surface. High chances of life
Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis Yesterday, NASA held a press briefing where scientists ...
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa said to foster life in its oceans – NASA live transmission
Europa, the icy satellite of Jupiter, is covered in a thick crust of scarred and cross-hatched ice. Missions to Europa, ...
