But “crop circles” is also a name astronomers have given the puzzling, faint troughs on Europa’s surface. No, scientists don’t think they were made by intelligent alien life, but they do ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the background) will come within 16 miles of the moon's surface. For more than a quarter century, scientists have wanted to send ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. Monday, beginning a nearly six-year, 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter, where it will study the frozen moon Europa, scanning below its ...

Europa Clipper is NASA's mission to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and determine whether its underground ocean is habitable. The mission launched on Oct. 14, 2024, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket ...

The solar-powered spacecraft Europa Clipper ascended above clear skies through Earth’s atmosphere on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is expected to ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex ... [+] 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

Now, the spacecraft has successfully entered orbit and NASA confirmed they received a signal from Europa Clipper about an hour and 10 minutes after launch, which means that mission control is ...

NASA on Monday launched a spacecraft toward Europa as part of a six-year mission to study one of Jupiter’s moons, which the space agency believes could be one of the “most promising places ...

According to NASA, the best place to find an environment suitable for life in our solar system is Jupiter's moon Europa. Can confirm: I just spent a few hours there and I saw beautiful blue skies ...