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Jupiter's moon Europa has an ice shell about 18 miles thick — and that could be bad news for alien life
Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is about 18 miles thick — which could make it hard for nutrients to get down to its buried ocean.
The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...
NASA waited four years to say this — We may have ‘touched’ alien life and we were just 18 miles away
The NASA Juno mission has given deeper insights into the possible alien life on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and how it could lie ...
Europa might not be the best place to look for alien life in the solar system after all. A new study modeling what the floor of the Jupiter moon's hidden ocean is like concluded that tectonic activity ...
A new finding of ammonia on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could have important implications for the search for ...
The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its massive under-ice liquid water oceans. It also displays water vapor plumes ...
Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) recently detected the presence of ammonia — a nitrogen-bearing compound crucial to supporting life — on ...
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