NASA's illustration showing the Europa Clipper over Europa. NASA launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft—equipped on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket—from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on a nearly six-year mission to Jupiter to see if it's possible to sustain life that far into space. Liftoff happened ...

The NASA mission to Europa has some stops to make on the way. On Oct. 14, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft began a vital mission. It will be investigating the potential habitability of Jupiter's i ...

It's part of an effort to help the orbiter chart a path to its final destination. This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won't search for life, but rather determine whether conditions there ...

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on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life. With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5½-year ...

Europa Clipper launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 14, 2024, via a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, embarking on a 1.8 billion-mile (2.9 billion-kilometer) journey to Jupiter, which ...

Opportunities to launch extend through Nov. 6. That’s what NASA’s Europa Clipper is seeking to discover. It will do so by observing Jupiter’s moon, Europa, for the ingredients that can ...

(GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images) A massive NASA mission to explore if one of Jupiter’s moons could support life launched Monday morning from Florida. The Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface. It won’t search for life, but rather determine whether conditions ...

“Ocean worlds like Europa are not only unique because they might be habitable, but they might be habitable today,” NASA’s Gina DiBraccio said on the eve of launch. SpaceX started Clipper on ...