Rumors began swirling about the demise of NASA science in April, when a leaked OMB document described some of the proposed cuts and cancellations. Those included both the beleaguered, bloated Mars ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper, launched on October 14, is already almost 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) from Earth on its journey to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Two of its scientific instruments have ...

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.

An illustrated depiction of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL On October 14, NASA launched Europa Clipper, its largest planetary mission spacecraft yet. It’s headed to Jupiter’s icy ...

Propellant aside, the Europa Clipper is 3,241 kilograms (7,145 pounds), whereas the Voyagers, which took 18 and 23 months respectively to reach their closest approach to Jupiter, have just a ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The ...

Europa has been near the top of the to-do list for planetary scientists since NASA's Voyager probes returned the first up-close images of Jupiter's moons in 1979.

David W. Brown on a NASA mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to search for alien life, and on the planetary scientist Louise Prockter, a leader of the mission.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest NASA has ever built for a planetary mission, launched on a 1.8 billion-mile journey from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Europa at 12:06 p.m.

The $5-billion Europa Clipper mission was designed and built by JPL . It’s the largest planetary probe ever built by NASA . To launch the spacecraft, SpaceX employed its Falcon Heavy rocket, a ...

It was the start of a 1.8-billion-mile, five-and-a-half-year journey. NASA's "Europa Clipper" took off Monday from the Kennedy Space Center.The probe is headed ...

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 ...