Europa's ocean is between 60 and 150 kilometers deep and is hidden beneath an outer shell of ice that's 15 to 25 kilometers thick. The evidence for an ocean began to mount from the late 1990s onwards.

Europa Clipper, a $5 billion flagship mission to an icy moon of Jupiter, is currently scheduled to lift off at 12:06 p.m. EDT (1606 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a tiny ...

NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane Milton forced a delay.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian ...

Europa Clipper flies above the icy surface of its eponymous moon in this artist's concept. [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech] NASA’s newest scientific flagship is on its way to the Jupiter system to ...

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The $5.2 billion mission is expected to end in 2034, when Europa Clipper will slam into Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. NASA has previously sent a much smaller probe, Juno, into orbit around ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. Monday, beginning a nearly six-year, 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter, where it will study the frozen moon Europa, scanning below its ...

NASA's 100-foot-long and approximately 58-foot-wide Clipper probe is the largest spacecraft the agency has built for a planetary mission and will travel 1.8 billion miles to Europa.

Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, to determine if it harbors conditions suitable to support life.

Europa Clipper, a $5 billion flagship mission to an icy moon of Jupiter, is currently scheduled to lift off at 12:06 p.m. EDT (1606 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a tiny ...