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 ...

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

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.

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

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.

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 researchers ran simulations of radiolysis at work in key locations in the Solar System to figure out how much energy it ...

Europa Clipper's radar instrument received echoes of its very-high-frequency radar signals that bounced off Mars and were ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

A new study could help identify ancient signs of cryovolcanic activity. This, in turn, could help guide the search for ...