Mission to Europa marks the first dedicated exploration of an extraterrestrial ocean world that scientists believe may have ...

Along the lunar orbital path, the point of closest proximity is known as perigee, which is when the moon is, on average, ...

Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The ...

A NASA spacecraft has blasted off on a quest to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and reveal whether its hidden ocean might hold ...

Two Southwest Research Institute instruments were launched aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 14 from the agency ...

After a 1.8 billion-mile journey, the uncrewed spacecraft is expected to settle into orbit around Jupiter in 2030, in an ...

Europa Clipper launched on Monday, Oct. 14 atop a SpaceX rocket to begin a 1.8-billion-mile journey to the Jovian System to ...

NASA is set to launch its Europa Clipper spacecraft Monday atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for its first mission to Jupiter ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched Monday afternoon from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s ...

It is a big mission for NASA’s huge spacecraft the Europa Clipper. Traveling nearly two billion miles to Jupiter’s moon, ...

People have long since wondered if any other planets in our solar system could house us and other life forms, and after ...

A massive NASA mission to explore if one of Jupiter’s moons could support life launched Monday morning from Florida.