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

Friday, October 11Jupiter, now located in Taurus the Bull, appears in telescopes wreathed by its four largest moons: Io, ...

Europa Clipper will launch on Thursday, Oct. 10, atop a SpaceX rocket to begin a 1.8-billion-mile journey to the Jovian ...

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 is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa, considered one of our solar system's most promising spots to ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is set for launch, finally revealing if this icy moon of Jupiter is habitable or not.

The first dedicated spacecraft to explore Europa, the mission will investigate the potential habitability of the moon's ...

All of that, plus fuel, means the spacecraft tips the scales at approximately 13,000 lbs., which requires a bruiser of a ...

Sixty-seven orbits of Jupiter. Two close-ups of its moon Europa—where astrobiologists think microbial life may exist—21 flybys of far-out Callisto, and nine months in orbit around the biggest ...

The goal for Europa Clipper, which will reach Jupiter's orbit in 2030, is to see if life is possible on Jupiter's moon Europa ...

But Mars and Earth are not the only places in the solar system that either have, or have had, water. On October 13th, if all ...

As European Space Agency (ESA)'s Jupiter Icy moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft hurtled past the moon and Earth in mid-August ...