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 ...

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 ...

After journeying for more than five years, the Europa Clipper will fire its engines to enter Jupiter's orbit in April 2030. With its massive solar arrays and radar antennas, the Clipper is the ...

Kromer will be working as a NASA intern from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory to study impact ...

The spacecraft is expected to reach Mars in February 2025 and swing back by Earth in 2026 to give Europa Clipper “enough energy to reach Jupiter” using the planets' gravity, NASA says.

Explore NASA's cancelled Europa mission and learn why Europa is a key target in the search for extraterrestrial life.

NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand how habitable Jovian satellite, with its vast salty ocean wrapped in a thick ice crust ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, is a frozen world with a subsurface ocean. It intrigues scientists as a possible home ...

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

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

A NASA mission to explore a Jupiter moon believed to be one of our galaxy's most promising locations to search for life-supporting conditions is at long last underway. The Europa Clipper launched ...