What does it take to demonstrate a radar system is ready to look through the frozen crust of a distant moon when the ultimate ...

It could be the most spectacular heavenly sight of 2025, the close pairing of the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, ...

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, ...

A new study suggests that cosmic radiation could potentially provide the energy to kick-start extraterrestrial life deep beneath the surface of icy worlds like Mars, Europa and Enceladus.

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.

As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

Cosmic rays from deep space might be the secret energy source that allows life to exist underground on Mars and icy moons like Enceladus and Europa. New research reveals that when these rays interact ...

The JUICE spacecraft tested its RIME instrument over the iconic Anders’ Earthrise crater to improve radar accuracy for ...