Authorities say millions of coins spilled onto a Texas highway this week after a tractor-trailer hauling $800,000 in dimes ...

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

The high-powered Hubble Space Telescope has caught sight of something amazing on Jupiter's icy moon Europa, NASA announced today. Scientists using the Hubble have discovered more evidence that ...

On Monday, NASA is set to reveal some new findings about Jupiter's moon Europa. While the space agency did specify that the announcement will not involve aliens, scientists are itching to find out ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

The giant planet Jupiter is one of the last places humans would ever look for life beyond Earth, but the planet's enigmatic moon Europa is a different story entirely. For 20 years, astrobiologists ...

One of these candidates is Europa, an ice-covered moon orbiting Jupiter. Although researchers have some information about this moon from satellites and ground-based instruments, they still lack ...

Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...

One of those days will bring it close to Europa, among 95 known moons at Jupiter and close to our own moon in size. The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...