The spacecraft is taking a long, roundabout route to Jupiter, covering 4 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) It will swoop within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of Callisto and 250 miles (400 ...

NASA’s biggest planetary-mission spacecraft to date is set to explore a potentially habitable place for life beyond Earth. The Europa Clipper is named after its destination, Europa, an icy moon ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life.

A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast hidden ocean might hold the keys to life. It ...

The Woman Who Helped Send a Spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter’s Icy Moon. A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life.

Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter and one of ... (1974 flyby of Jupiter system). The spacecraft made a ... Galileo, however, called the moons the Medicean planets in honor of the Medici family.

Every time the spacecraft rounds Jupiter, its path will be slightly different, ... But add enough, and you’ll cross over into another family—say, one that includes Jupiter inside its orbits.

The U.S. Explorer roared into space on a Jupiter-C missile, developed as a byproduct of the Army's Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic' missile. And Explorer's victorious streak ...

A European spacecraft rocketed away Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could have buried oceans. The journey began with a morning liftoff by Europe&#821… ...