More than 42,000 Africans’ names are in a spacecraft launched from the United States on Monday, destined for a faraway moon ...

On the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, near fissures spewing hot water, a submersible stumbled upon a thriving community of animals living in cavities below.

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

Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, orbiting the gas giant Jupiter, there is a moon that scientists believe is home to ...

NASA just launched a spacecraft the size of a basketball court towards Jupiter's moon Europa. Here's what will happen over ...

Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.

A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues ...

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

Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The ...

NASA's Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft ever built for an interplanetary mission, has launched from Kennedy Space ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper will travel to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate whether the moon has conditions necessary to ...

Everything about the Europa Clipper mission is huge. Sent to investigate the ice-covered and perhaps habitable second moon of ...