Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to the Jupiter moon Europa to search for evidence that the world could be habitable. Europa is an icy celestial body that scientists ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait of Mars — a cosmic photo op that helped scientists fine-tune an instrument ...

NASA's Europa Clipper, en route to Jupiter’s moon Europa, captured infrared images of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby to ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian moon Europa in 2030 and spend several years collecting and ...

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1. The spacecraft was ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully ...

What can the surface activity on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, teach scientists about its subsurface ocean? This is what a ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the background) will come within 16 miles of the moon's surface. For more than a quarter century, scientists have wanted to send ...

A pair of researchers in astrophysics claim the data sheds new light on Jupiter’s role in shaping the early solar system and ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, has reached a significant milestone as one of its key scientific instruments completed ...

The mission took the opportunity of its Mars flyby to make sure its instruments were functioning properly. One designed and ...

Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...