A long-awaited mission to an icy moon of Jupiter is on track to launch in just a few weeks, NASA officials said Tuesday in an event previewing the launch. The moon, Europa, is thought to have ...

Europa Clipper has set sail at long last. NASA's Europa Clipper probe launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, kicking off a ...

So with Clipper, we will explore the habitability of Europa in order to determine ... a mission project scientist out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the probe will orbit Jupiter ...

on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life. With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5½-year ...

That is the only part —” “Separation confirmed.” “And there you go: NASA’s Europa Clipper probe embarking on a long awaited mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.” Europa ...

One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on Monday, sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile ...

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary ... have indicated that Europa has a vast subsurface ocean, and this mission is designed to explore the possibility that life ...

We’re about to find out. In October, NASA will launch Europa Clipper, a $5 billion probe that will get a closer look at the moon’s geology and chemistry – and, with any luck, identify the ...