A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

"It's a chance for us to explore not a world that might have been habitable billions of years ago, but a world that might be ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, is home to a fascinating array of moons. Among its 90-plus satellites, one ...

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

Io, Jupiter's moon, continues to reveal itself. The latest images transmitted by the Juno spacecraft offer an unprecedented ...

"Considering the gravitational interactions with the large planet's other moons, Io ends up getting bullied ... maps to establish complex volcanic surface patterns. Matching her work against ...

On Feb. 27, 2025, Europa Clipper will gain a gravitational assist from the Red Planet, stealing some of ... they are the volcanic Io (which is so close that it is stretched and squeezed by ...

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 ...

The mission is headed to a very intriguing moon of the largest planet, Jupiter ... four moons the Galilean moons and their names are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Calisto. Europa is the second closest ...

Several space probes have obtained intriguing images of the surface, but what lies beneath remains a mystery. The discovery ...

From the Galilean Moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto ... To start seeing surface details on the planets, we need to use larger diameter telescopes. Although smaller telescopes ...