KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's Europa Clipper mission on Monday launched a satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s “mysterious moon” — a world covered in ice that scientists say could ...

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, has long been one of the most exciting targets in the search for life beyond Earth. Many scientists believe that an ocean lies below its icy surface, potentially hosting ...

The map comprises images gathered by Europa Clipper's predecessors — Voyager 2, Galileo, and Juno, NASA spacecraft that performed flybys of the moon. The guided tour walks you through the ...

Scientists are exploring Jupiter's moon Europa for potential life due to its subsurface ocean, rich in water, chemical elements, and energy from tidal flexing. NASA's Europa Clipper will assess ...

The moon of Jupiter that has most captured scientists' interest, Europa, is sheathed in ice. There's strong evidence of a global ocean of liquid water below Europa's frozen crust, and Europa ...

If all goes well, the Europa Clipper will brake into orbit around Jupiter in April 2030, setting up 49 close flybys of the frigid moon Europa ... cameras that will map about 90% of Europa's ...

cameras that will map virtually the entire moon and tools to tease out the contents of Europa’s surface and tenuous atmosphere. The name hearkens to the swift sailing ships of centuries past ...

With its observations, scientists expect to measure the depth of the ocean, identify some of the compounds at Europa’s surface and precisely map the moon’s magnetic field, which will provide ...

and forced the closure of the space center. A visual look at Europa Clipper’s journey Can an icy Jupiter moon sustain life? NASA’s biggest space probe will investigate. Take a visual look at ...