Dozens gather on the lawn of the Kennedy Space Center press site to watch as a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off with NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Hot on ...

NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is set to explore Jupiter's moon Europa, one of the prime candidates for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will assess whether Europa's conditions, such as its ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is on a 1.8 billion mile journey to explore an icy ocean that could hold the secrets of life beyond ...

If we’re going to find life on another world, Europa might just be our best bet. We think this icy moon of Jupiter has an ocean of water beneath its frozen surface, and it seems like this ocean might ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An image of Jupiter and Io as seen by NASA's Juno on August ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is now soaring towards Jupiter to look for an environment that could support extraterrestrial life. The spacecraft is the largest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is due to lift off on Monday on a five-and-a-half-year journey to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to ...

Enhanced image by Jackie Branc (CC-BY) based on images courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS of Jupiter during Juno’s 62nd perijove on June 12, 2024. Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on ...

Jupiter’s best-known feature is not a solid mark on a surface but a vast vortex embedded in moving cloud bands. The Great Red Spot remains wider than Earth even after more than a century of shrinkage.

NASA's Juno spacecraft snaps images of Jupiter and catches the tiny moon Amalthea as it orbits the planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt This is not just another sublime ...