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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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'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 ...

To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has been working on a robot that could handle the ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

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

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

A series of experiments led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Ujjwal Raut support spectral data recently collected by the ...