NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...

The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of instruments to survey for geologic activity, magnetism and more ...

"It carries a radar that can penetrate through ice like a CT scan to find liquid water, super high-resolution imaging. We’ll be able to look for warm spots and plumes at Europa—all these ...

For one, astrobiologists need to make sure Europa has plumes, which are vents of water and other material erupting out from beneath the surface. Confirmed plumes would be a sign that Europa is a ...

Europe's dominant feature is its vast salty ocean contained under a thick ice crust, which sometimes escapes through vast water plumes. NASA scientists will use Europa Clipper's instruments to ...

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.

Europa Clipper is designed to reach the Jupiter system in April 2030 and spend four years making close flybys of Europa, one of the most promising places in our solar system for the search for life ...

Europa Clipper will map the surface of the moon using its nine onboard instruments, looking for water plumes. The spacecraft will have to move quickly to avoid too much exposure to Jupiter's ...

One of the mission's most anticipated discoveries will be to confirm whether water plumes previously observed are actively ...