People have long since wondered if any other planets in our solar system could house us and other life forms, and after decades of research, NASA thinks it might have found one: Europa, Jupiter's ...

NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand how habitable Jovian satellite, with its vast salty ocean wrapped in a thick ice crust, ...

TWO. ONE. IGNITION AND LIFTOFF. LIFTOFF OF FALCON HEAVY WITH THE EUROPA CLIPPER. A $1.8 BILLION, 1.8 BILLION MILE MISSION STARTED RIGHT THERE WITH THAT BLAST OFF TODAY FROM OUR SPACE COAST WITH THE ...

What: Ultraviolet observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft while the ...

Europa has a deep ocean, but a new study suggests its seafloor may be too quiet to supply the energy life needs to survive.

PASADENA, Calif. (KABC) -- NASA is getting ready to launch is new project into space later this year. The Europa Clipper spacecraft is in its final preparations before being shipped to the Kennedy ...

When NASA launches its Europa Clipper mission, scheduled for October 2024, the spacecraft will carry a special surprise aboard alongside its components and instruments: a commemorative plate honoring ...

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A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is ...

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might host life. It was the 1980s, and Buratti was a graduate student at ...

For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...