28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
... Agency)'s upcoming mission, JUICE, which stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. JUICE is the first large-class mission in... look at Ganymede and recently released new imagery of the icy moon. Juno has been studying Jupiter and its environment, also ...
07 July 2021
Methane detected on Enceladus could be a sign of life, study shows
... interesting destinations; and they were not wrong, as according to a new study published in Nature Astronomy, this small icy moon appears to be producing too much methane in its ocean – a sign that could indicate microbes are feeding on vents...
05 February 2021
Hydrazine might be present on Rhea, new study says
...with determining the chemical compounds that made up the Saturn moon’s surfaces. However a later study of this data revealed..., another of Saturn’s icy moons, a finding which led to the suggestion that the 500 kilometre-wide moon had an internal ocean....
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... about life ‘out there’. Astrobiologists say that if there is life somewhere in our solar system then these icy moons around Jupiter and Saturn are possible places where it could be preserved. It would be extremely interesting to know whether...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
...the presence of life. The combination of the moon’s geological, compositional and induced magnetic field measurements... JUICE mission – whose aim is to determine whether the icy moon possesses the ingredients necessary to support life as we know it, ...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
...Europa Clipper or ESA’s JUICE mission heads to the small Jovian icy moon in a few years, would their instruments be able to ...there is one overriding aspect that any mission heading to the moon will have to overcome if it wants to succeed at spotting...
