On Oct. 14, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft began a vital mission. It will be investigating the potential habitability of Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa — but first, it has to get there.

Scientists are exploring Jupiter's moon Europa for potential life due to its subsurface ocean, rich in water, chemical elements, and energy from tidal flexing. NASA's Europa Clipper will assess ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launching on October 10, 2024, will study Jupiter's icy moon Europa. With nearly 50 flybys, it will investigate Europa's potential to harbor life through its hidden ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

Item 1 of 4 Flames are shown as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is launched for the Europa Clipper mission to study one of Jupiter's 95 moons, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida ...

NASA launched the Europa Clipper, a robotic space probe, to study one of Jupiter's moons on Oct. 14 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Video: NASA) ...

NASA launches Europa Clipper to probe Jupiter moon 05:17. One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on ...

Now begins the long journey to Jupiter. Europa Clipper is scheduled to enter the planet’s orbit in 2030 after a 5 ½-year flight of 1.8 billion miles.

Item 1 of 2 The Europa Clipper spacecraft, which main science goal is to determine whether there are places below the surface of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, that could support life, is seen being ...

With the clock ticking down to the historic launch of NASA's Europa Clipper mission to survey the mysterious frozen moon of Jupiter, a 1.8-billion-mile voyage that will take five-and-a-half years ...

Among vehicles that have visited the moon are NASA’s Pioneer 10 and 11, which flew by Jupiter in the early 1970s, as well as the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1979. NASA's Juno spacecraft has been ...

The fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons and roughly the size of ours, Europa presents strong evidence for a saltwater ocean some 40 to 100 miles deep beneath a layer of ice 10 to 15 miles thick.