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 ...

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

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.

We got everything out of the flyby that we dreamed,” said Don Blankenship, NASA’s REASON radar principal investigator, as ...

Iron, a common element in rocks and groundwater, plays a key role in this reaction. The study found that these ...

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 ...

Highlights include a morning meetup between Jupiter and Venus, a chance to see the Perseid meteor shower, and a window into our own sun's destiny.

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.

Additional data collected at infrared frequencies signaled that the dwarf planet's most of the region was methane rich, which shows that the spires are too. The results show that the bladed terrain of ...