New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is the smoothest object in the Solar System. There are no mountains, very few craters, and no valleys. It's tallest features are isolated massifs up to 500 meters (1640 ft) tall.

Europa is the only Galilean moon that is smaller than Earth’s moon; and only by just a little. Europa has an ... won’t have to deal with too many topographical features. Europa is one of the ...

On Thursday, NASA’s Juno spacecraft came within 219 miles of the moon, allowing its camera, the JunoCam, to capture high-resolution images of Europa’s terrain.

Surface features of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa are revealed in an image obtained by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) during the spacecraft’s Sept. 29, 2022, flyby.

The surface of Europa, some 390 million miles away, shows “striking double ridge features” that are symmetric on both sides, with a trough in the middle, says Stanford University geophysics ...

Europa’s frozen surface is covered with distinctive pairs of ridges that straddle troughs of ice. These double ridges are the most common features on the Jovian moon.

Europa is one of the most intriguing worlds in the solar system. It’s the smallest of Jupiter’s big moons, and just a wee bit smaller than our own Moon. When the two Voyager spacecraft flew by ...

If Europa's features form the same way, this could signal the presence of copious amounts of liquid water - a key ingredient for life - near the surface of this Jovian moon's thick outer ice shell.

The moon is considered a good candidate for possibly hosting alien life. It will be the target of NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission , set to launch in 2024. Juno's work is giving scientists a ...

NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the first hints ...

Although Europa — one of 79 moons that orbit Jupiter — is the sixth-closest moon to the giant planet, its magnetic field helps protect it from Jupiter’s radiation.