Set to orbit Jupiter and make over 40 flybys of Europa, this spacecraft is built to analyze the moon’s subsurface ocean without landing. Equipped with a vault to shield its electronics from intense ...

Featured Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Europa is high on a target list for astrobiology as it contains a large liquid volume of salty liquid water beneath its icy crust that scientists hypothesize could ...

The Europa Clipper mission got the green light from NASA in 2015, revealed Vance, as engineers and scientists worked together to design and build a spacecraft to reach one of Jupiter’s famed ...

Nasa’s Europa Clipper spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on October 14th, 2024. The mission is outlined by Nadia Drake in a recent edition of Scientific American.

The GAO determined that 14 of 18 NASA projects assessed were within cost and schedule margins during fiscal 2025, but four programs—led by the Orion deep-space crew capsule—are over budget by a total ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

There are a lot of open questions here. The European Space Agency's JUICE mission is enroute right now, and it will soon be joined by NASA's Europa Clipper.

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

In 2024, the company’s larger Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa. It is set to launch the ambitious Nancy Grace Roman Telescope in May 2027. The working ...

As new rockets and space companies arrive on the scene, this workhorse of a rocket, the Falcon 9, remains the most common rocket launched from Florida launch pads. It debuted 15 years ago this week, ...