NASA's illustration showing the Europa Clipper over Europa. NASA launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft—equipped on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket—from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center ...

on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life. With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5½-year ...

That is the only part —” “Separation confirmed.” “And there you go: NASA’s Europa Clipper probe embarking on a long awaited mission to study Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.” Europa ...

Europa Clipper has set sail at long last ... fuel to perform landing burns for recovery and reuse on future launches. NASA's Psyche asteroid probe — the first interplanetary spacecraft to ...

A Falcon Heavy lifts off Oct. 14 from the Kennedy Space Center carrying NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: Brandon Lindner MILAN — A long-awaited mission to study if an icy moon of ...

Europa Clipper’s large solar arrays, which will help power the spacecraft on its journey, deployed three hours after launch. Europa Clipper will serve as NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper launched on Oct. 14 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carried into orbit on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, according to the agency. The agency will invest ...

It was all cheers at JPL on Monday morning, Oct. 14. NASA’s Europa Clipper, managed out of the Pasadena campus and carrying the most sophisticated probing devices ever sent to the outer solar ...

“Europa Clipper will undoubtedly deliver mind-blowing science," NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Laurie Leshin shared. While always bittersweet to send something we’ve labored over ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched on October 14, 2024, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission aims to investigate Europa ...

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 ...