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.

Pluto’s frozen face looks dead at first glance, but its most famous feature hints at something far stranger than a simple ice ...

Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become heavy enough to break free and sink through Europa’s icy shell, delivering ...

Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system. Reading time 2 minutes Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, is encased in a shell of ...

NASA’s Juno mission, led by an SwRI scientist, recently provided the first resolved subsurface measurements of the ice-encased Jovian moon Europa. This cutaway illustration shows an 18-mile-thick ...

“How thick the ice shell is and the existence of cracks or pores within the ice shell are part of the complex puzzle for understanding Europa’s potential habitability,” said Scott Bolton, principal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Jupiter moon Europa was ...

Data from NASA's Juno mission has provided new insights into the thickness and subsurface structure of the icy shell encasing Jupiter's moon Europa. Using the spacecraft's Microwave Radiometer (MWR), ...

How thick is the ice shell on Jupiter’s moon, Europa? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists revealed groundbreaking insights into Europa’s ...