NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to ...

It will take Europa Clipper 5½ years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak close to Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys.

Named for the shadow-dwelling god of the underworld, the small but mighty planet is associated with sex, death, destruction ...

Europa Clipper will make a six-year journey to Jupiter to study Europa, an icy-surfaced moon that scientists believe has ...

About the size of a basketball court with its solar wings unfurled, Clipper will swing past Mars and then Earth on its way to Jupiter for gravity assists. The nearly 13,000-pound (5,700-kilogram) ...

NASA is set to launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa, on October 14, using SpaceX's Falcon ...

A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has lifted off.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a nearly six-year mission to Jupiter to see ...

A NASA spacecraft has lifted off on a quest to explore one of Jupiter's moons with scientists suspecting a deep ocean could ...

Nasa’s Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles, before finally arriving at the biggest planet in the solar system in ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Soon, a space instrument made at the University of Colorado Boulder will be on a multi-year mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, to look for conditions that support life.