The NASA mission, called Europa Clipper, aims to figure out whether the Jupiter moon and its ocean could support life. It's ...

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa’s) latest deep space probe, Europa Clipper, successfully lifted ...

The Galileo probe flew past it in the 1990s, confirming scientists’ initial hopes that the moon was more than the quiet rocky ball orbiting Earth. The excitement led scientists to formally ask ...

The Galileo probe flew past it in the 1990s, confirming scientists' initial hopes that the moon was more than the quiet rocky ball orbiting Earth. The excitement led scientists to formally ask ...

A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

NASA's Europa Clipper has finally launched towards Jupiter, where it will attempt to answer one of the biggest questions ...

Galileo used his devices to rewrite ... In 2017, astronomers used the LBT to glimpse the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (a machine only about 20 feet long) from 7 million miles away. Even larger ...

17) and then landed safely, acing its 22nd mission. The Falcon 9 rocket, carrying two spacecraft for Europe's Galileo satnav constellation, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...

While the Europa Clipper "cannot detect life directly", said James O'Donoghue, a planetary astronomy expert from Reading ...

Planetary scientists have grown increasingly certain that Europa hosts a subsurface ocean ever since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft visited Jupiter in the 1990s (SN: 2/18/02). “During the Galileo ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will launch Monday to explore Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. The mission will use advanced instruments ...