A second science campaign, which will send the craft past the Jupiter-facing side of the moon ... By studying the chemistry of Europa's surface ice and subsurface water directly, scientists ...

NASA has captured the highest-resolution photo of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The image, which NASA released last week, showcases over 93 by 125 miles of surface region on the moon.

After its 2030 arrival, Europa Clipper will perform nearly 50 close flybys of the moon, mapping its surface, analyzing its icy crust, and studying its thin atmosphere. Jupiter, as seen by NASA’s ...

With such a map, the Europa Clipper will be able to orient itself for the long trek to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. As such, onboard are a pair of small cameras called star trackers, which capture ...

Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...

The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is ... rage on Io's surface, earning it the title of the solar system's most volcanically active body. And scientists believe Europa sports a deep, vast ...

The spacecraft’s star trackers are helping guide it to Europa, ensuring a smooth journey to the icy moon. NASA’s Europa Clipper is travelling through space, heading towards Jupiter’s moon ...

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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. This highly stylized view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa was created by reprocessing an image captured ... [+] by JunoCam during ...

The Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer, developed at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will investigate Jupiter’s icy moon. Six CU Boulder scientists have been selected to contribute their ...