After ten years of development and construction, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is just months away from departing Earth on ...

NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA’s Europa Clipper, now en route to Jupiter, departed with less-than-satisfactory and vulnerable devices that are susceptible to Jupiter’s ...

Europa Clipper mission planner at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. "Everything has to line up — the geometry of the solar system has to be just right to pull it off." ...

Scientists in protective suits assemble the Europa Clipper spacecraft in a cavernous clean room at JPL. JPL’s daunting to-do list includes the launch next year of the spacecraft Europa Clipper ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational ... acts on the spacecraft to bend its path," said NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission systems engineer Brett Smith in a statement.

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NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

Europa Clipper will map nearly the entire surface of the moon, providing detailed insights into its icy crust, subduction zones, and potential locations where future missions could land.