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 ...

Nasa’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will loop around Jupiter on a course that will carry it by Europa 49 times over four years ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

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 ...