Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface.
A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.
A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.
It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...
NASA's Europa Clipper mission aims to investigate the potential for life on Jupiter's moon, Europa. The spacecraft, equipped ...
For the first time, NASA is journeying to this mysterious moon to determine if it might be able to host alien life. NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the ...
Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft will conduct a detailed study of the moon, looking for potential places where Europa might host alien life. It’s the largest planetary exploration ...
Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter's moon Europa contains an ocean at least twice the size of Earth's. The Europa Clipper probe — which is the length of a basketball court and the largest ...
But if the basic sciences of chemistry, energy, and biology apply, Jupiter’s moon Europa may be alive as well. On Oct. 10, NASA aims to start finding out, when it launches the $5 billion Europa ...
The uncrewed orbiter had been on track to takeoff Thursday on a SpaceX rocket in Florida, beginning its six-year cosmic journey to the Jupiter moon Europa to search for signs of life-supporting ...
On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa Clipper, the spacecraft will conduct a detailed study of the moon ...
Nasa is doing just that: launching a spacecraft on October 10 to Europa, a moon of Jupiter holding twice the water of all Earth’s oceans combined. Europa’s ocean is between 60 and 150 ...