"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 ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

NASA’s Europa Clipper is using Mars and Earth’s gravity to travel efficiently to Jupiter. The spacecraft will study Europa’s ...

The Europa Clipper mission, NASA's largest planetary science spacecraft to date, aims to determine if Jupiter's moon Europa ...

In doing so, it will help us learn more about the details of Europa, such as the thickness of the ice layer and the depth of the ocean, the chemistry of the ocean (e.g., pH and salinity), whether ...

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Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...