(Europa's magnetic field will behave differently depending on the depth of the ocean.) In addition to sporting these instruments, Europa Clipper will carry the Gravity/Radio Science experiment.

In 1996, NASA’s Galileo mission flew by Europa and beamed back some extremely curious data: Apparently, this tiny frozen moon possessed a magnetic field, something normally only found on larger ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Search for ... is bigger than Mercury and has its own magnetic field generated internally from a ...

NASA is troubleshooting a recently revealed problem with the transistors aboard its $5 billion Europa Clipper spacecraft, ...

Europa Clipper launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, kicking off a highly anticipated ...

These tidal forces appear to have melted some of the ice below Europa’s frozen surface, giving it a suspected vast ocean that surrounds its entire core, first hinted at in magnetic field data ...

Europa Clipper will face a challenge once it reaches the planet's moon — exposure to radiation, since the moon is within Jupiter’s magnetic field.

A research team led by Prof. Sheng Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...