To learn about the potential for life in a hidden ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA will hunt for plumes and "crop circles ...

Over the course of the mission, the spacecraft will make 49 "clips" past Europa hence its name, Europa Clipper. During the ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface.

A massive NASA mission to explore if one of Jupiter’s moons could support life launched Monday morning from Florida.

Juno fired its main engine beginning at 11:18 p.m. EDT/0318 Tuesday GMT, slowing the spacecraft so it could be captured by the planet’s gravity. [UPDATE: Tuesday, July 5, 11.00am] Juno ...

Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA has launched its first mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, to determine if it harbors conditions suitable to support life. NASA's Europa ...

The Europa Clipper spacecraft is on an almost six-year, 3 billion kilometres (1.8b miles) mission to learn whether conditions ...

So Europa Clipper, like NASA's Juno mission before it, will adopt an elliptical orbit that takes it far out from Jupiter and the radiation for most of the orbit, before sailing in for a close ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched Monday afternoon from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s ...

NASA is getting ready to launch a £4 billion spacecraft in to the solar system in a mission that is likely to be the biggest ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft had repeated flybys of the moon during the 1990s, passing as close as 124 miles (200 kilometers). Still in action around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has added to ...

It will take Europa Clipper 5 1/2 years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak ...