Once the Europa Clipper takes off, ahead of the uncrewed spacecraft is a six-year journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, where the massive orbiter will ... the moon since the Galileo mission ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December ...

After an initial eight-minute burn, the spacecraft entered a "coasting orbit ... since NASA's Galileo probe found that the moon likely has a subterranean global ocean, heated by Jupiter’s ...