Exploring the Enigmatic Secrets of Europa, Jupiter's Icy Moon Scientists were puzzled by one of Jupiter's fascinating moons, ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists are almost certain a deep, global ocean exists beneath Europa's icy crust. And where there is ... and other clues as it peers beneath the ice for suitable conditions.

It will take Europa Clipper 5½ years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak close to Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys.

The Europa Clipper spacecraft will use its various instruments to probe whether the icy ocean world is habitable.

Europa Clipper is designed to reach the Jupiter system in April 2030 and spend four years making close flybys of Europa, one ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will launch Monday to explore Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. The mission will use advanced instruments ...

Scientists are almost certain a deep, global ocean exists beneath Europa's icy crust. And where there is water ... searching for organic compounds and other clues as it peers beneath the ice for ...