In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

Europa Clipper and JUICE are set up to give scientists game-changing information about the potential habitability of ...

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will travel to Jupiter's moon Europa to investigate whether the moon has conditions necessary to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, ...

NASA's Europa Clipper launches toward Jupiter's moon, Europa, on a mission to explore its icy surface and potential for life.

Europa's ocean is thought to lie beneath the moon's icy surface, which is why Clipper includes ice-penetrating radar, called Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON).

The tidal forces exerted by Jupiter on Europa may even lead to a dynamic exchange between the ocean under the icy crust and the moon's surface. The ocean's water may in fact be pressurised, reaching ...

Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The ...

The Europa Clipper launched Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket propelling it on a six-year journey to reach its ...

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

Europa is an icy celestial body that scientists have long suspected could harbor the conditions necessary to support life beneath its surface. A NASA mission to explore a Jupiter moon believed to ...