627 million km (390 million mi) from Earth, underneath the cold seas of Europa, a horrifying, and vastly intelligent creature lurks. Can our human minds even comprehend such an alien creature? It ...

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.

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 ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: David Hinkle/Wikimedia Commons) A new study from Washington State University looks at the interaction between ...

A new finding of ammonia on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could have important implications for the search for extraterrestrial life. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Scientists believe Europa's seafloor is likely tectonically quiet, without active volcanoes or hot water plumes. These findings contrast with the long-held theory that Europa is a promising location ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond Earth, with a large subsurface ocean thought to ...

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 ...

The odds are that life is out there – but rather than little green men, it may look more like hydrothermal vent tubeworms ...