That is the only part —” “Separation confirmed.” “And there you go: NASA’s Europa Clipper probe embarking on a long awaited mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.” Europa ...

One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on Monday, sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, kicking off a $5.2 billion robotic mission to explore one of the most ...

Europa Clipper, a NASA spacecraft named after the Jupiter moon it will study, could launch as soon as mid-October, beginning the journey to reveal if this suspected waterworld might support life.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured a thermal image of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby, testing instruments ahead of ...

Here’s how it works. Europa Clipper has set sail at long last. NASA's Europa Clipper probe launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC ...

Every spacecraft destined to explore the Jupiter system is specially ... it could fly through a plume and directly sample the stuff of Europa. And although NASA is not billing Clipper as a life ...

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully ...