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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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) ...

For centuries, Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, was not considered a promising place to look for life. But in the mid-1990s, NASA’s Galileo mission flew close to the moon and spotted ...

Europa, the superstar among Jupiter’s many moons One of Jupiter’s 95 known moons, Europa is almost the size of our own moon. It's encased in an ice sheet estimated to be 10 miles to 15 miles ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa has an icy surface and few craters. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute. If it takes off successfully next month, the orbiter will arrive at Jupiter in April 2030.

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.