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.

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself as it makes its way to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon later this week. The craft launched from the agency's ...

Currently, two astrobiology missions are headed for Europa: NASA's Europa Clipper mission and the ESA's JUpiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE). The former will arrive by 2030 and will begin observing ...

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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 ...

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 ...