The moon was first discovered by the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610, and a NASA spacecraft named after him later flew by and discovered that Europa was likely to have a subsurface ocean.

Europa Clipper has set sail at long last. NASA's Europa Clipper probe launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, kicking off a ...

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

So with Clipper, we will explore the habitability of Europa in order to determine ... a mission project scientist out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the probe will orbit Jupiter ...

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 ...

The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary ... have indicated that Europa has a vast subsurface ocean, and this mission is designed to explore the possibility that life ...

“It’s a chance for us to explore not a world that might ... Still in action around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has added to Europa’s photo album. Arriving at Jupiter a year after ...