Gizmodo.com May 21, 2026 • 20:15

So Those Water Vapors on Europa Might Not Actually Be a Thing - Gizmodo

By Gayoung Lee

So Those Water Vapors on Europa Might Not Actually Be a Thing - Gizmodo

The prospects of tall, vapory plumes of water gracing Europa's surface caused a huge splash in astronomy—but the very researchers behind this claim now aren't so sure.

In 2014, a monumental Science paper showed that Hubble data pointed to intermittent plumes of water vapor on Europa, one of Jupiters many moons. Twelve years later, the same researchers revisited dat… [+3868 chars]

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