"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

Rayme Traub placed his daughter’s name onto the interior vault of Europa Clipper, a NASA probe that will eventually soar to Jupiter. While members of the public could get their names onto a ...

Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA’s Europa Clipper, now en route to Jupiter, departed with less-than-satisfactory and vulnerable devices that are susceptible to Jupiter’s ...

The Europa Clipper launched Monday afternoon aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which is designed to help propel the spacecraft on a six-year journey to reach its namesake moon, an icy ocean world.

Soon, they may have answers. In October, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send Europa Clipper, a satellite orbiter with nine analytical instruments, to Europa to study its ...

With an array of scientific instruments, Europa Clipper will study the water, energy, and chemistry present on the moon. Europa Clipper will use cameras that detect visible, infrared, and ultraviolet ...

On March 1, NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and ...

NASA installed the solar array for the Europa Clipper spacecraft, a robotic craft with a mission to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa by 2030. The large moon is one of 95 that orbit Jupiter ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will initiate a gravity assist on its journey to Jupiter. The probe will slingshot around Mars to gain speed. NASA footage ...

It was a history making launch -- when NASA’s Europa Clipper embarked on its long five-year voyage to Jupiter. The $5 billion spacecraft is the largest ever built for a mission headed to another ...