The Europa Clipper launched Monday afternoon aboard ... the Clipper to verify its health as it spread its massive solar arrays to power itself onward. Ahead of the Clipper is a 1.8 billion-mile ...

NASA has spent decades studying many of the planets in our solar system up close ... The mission, called Europa Clipper, will see a spacecraft sent to Europa and remain in orbit around the ...

One of the most promising places to look in our own solar neighborhood is Europa. Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational ... practice for spacecraft venturing to the far reaches of our solar system. For instance, last year, the European Space Agency's Jupiter ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft ... extending 100 feet with its solar arrays. These large arrays are necessary to power the spacecraft as it travels near Jupiter, far from the Sun’s energy.