Scientists spent 15 years making the first geologic map of Europa. The map will help NASA pick places to explore on the icy, ocean-hiding moon of Jupiter.

A global geological map of the Jovian moon Europa is helping scientists understand the history of the icy moon.

The team's near-global UV maps show concentrations of sulfur dioxide on Europa's trailing side, or hemisphere. Like Earth's Moon, Europa is tidally-locked with Jupiter, and the trailing hemisphere is ...

Europa is regarded as one of the most likely places in the solar system to find life, but where to look for evidence of it? To aid future space missions, a team has drawn up comprehensive maps of ...

LOS ANGELES: Astronomers have created the first global thermal map of Jupiter 's icy moon Europa by using images taken with the ALMA observatory in Chile. The new series of four images of Europa ...

NASA Maps Out Goals for Europa LandingPappalardo and his colleagues further recommend that any Europa lander be capable of drilling as far down as 10 centimeters into the moon’s surface ice ...

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is one of the most fascinating places in the solar system. A little smaller than Earth's moon, Europa is has subsurface water where—just maybe—life could exist. The ...