A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer ...

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 ...

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.

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

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the background) will come within 16 miles of the moon's surface. For more than a quarter century, scientists have wanted to send ...

The particles are frequently ejected from the surface of the moon by meteorite impacts. The spacecraft will travel 1.8 billion miles and won’t arrive at Jupiter until April of 2030. Beginning in ...

Europa is the second closest moon to Jupiter and the smallest of the Galilean moons. As far as size goes, Europa is 90% the size of our Moon. It has a smooth, icy surface and crust. But beneath ...

Jupiter has 95 moons and Io ... Pettine broke down Juno's flyby maps to establish complex volcanic surface patterns. Matching her work against theory, she found a surprising number of active ...

NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) over the surface of the moon. Credit: Space.com | imagery credit ...

"We're looking for chemicals on the surface, organic chemicals that are ... If all goes to plan, the probe will arrive at Jupiter in April of 2030, following a cosmic trek of 1.8 billion miles ...

The side of the Europa facing Jupiter is visible in this image. According to NASA Europa's surface is crisscrossed by fractures, ridges, and bands, which have erased terrain older than about 90 ...