How nutrients from Europa's icy shell reach its ocean has been unclear despite several theories.

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

How can scientists estimate the pH level of Enceladus' subsurface ocean without landing on its surface? This is what a study ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have figured out how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have been able to support ...

Does Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, contain the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa—with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. A ...