In 2008, NASA and the European Space Agency (Esa) proposed the Europa Jupiter System Mission—Laplace (EJSM-Laplace), which aimed to send orbiters to Europa and Ganymede. Both were cancelled in ...

NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand ... issue with the probe's propulsion system, but later added that the system was ...

People have long since wondered if any other planets in our solar system could house ... is launching a robotic mission entitled Europa Clipper to Jupiter on Monday, October 14, at 12:06 pm ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission ... environments in our solar system—second only to the sun's Jupiter is surrounded by a gigantic ...

Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA has launched its first mission to ... as it operates in the Jupiter system, according to the agency. The journey to Europa is long, with ...

NASA's long-awaited mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa ... believe ocean worlds such as Europa are common outside of our solar system, so studying the icy moon could ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper ... spacecraft to orbit the Jupiter system and collected data on these moons. The Galileo mission orbited Jupiter from ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech] NASA’s newest scientific flagship is on its way to the Jupiter system to explore the icy moon Europa, one of the most compelling worlds in our solar system. The mission lifted ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

NASA's flagship Europa Clipper spacecraft will explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa on a mission to understand ... is designed to reach the Jupiter system in April 2030 and spend four years making ...

(GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images) A massive NASA mission ... for the moon Europa, one of 95 known moons of Jupiter. Europa is considered one of the best candidates in the solar system to support ...