NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean beneath its surface.

and NASA is going to send a new spacecraft to check it out. The mission, called Europa Clipper, will see a spacecraft sent to Europa and remain in orbit around the moon for several years.

NASA engineers at the Langley Research Center ... that is the currently mandated booster for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission. The first of six major testing campaigns began last year and ...

It’s part of NASA’s larger Europa Clipper mission, which will investigate the icy moon to determine if it has conditions that could support life. Over seven years, roughly 150 scientists and engineers ...

Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has developed for a planetary mission, extending 100 feet with its solar arrays. These large arrays are necessary to power the spacecraft as it ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational ... as part of the first mission specifically designed to study the under 2,000-mile-across space rock. The mission's main objective ...

Here's everything to know about NASA's flagship mission and when to expect it to launch. Europa Clipper: NASA plans for launch life-searching mission to Jupiter moon Before Milton tore a path of ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

a chemist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the Europa Clipper mission. “If you are a cryophile, it means that you also have to be a salt loving organism,” explained Lyle Whyte, a ...

At the Mars Yard that day, Leshin talked about the pioneering Europa Clipper spacecraft and the importance of “getting that to the pad.” It’s what NASA calls a Flagship mission, and its ...