NASA's Europa Clipper will embark on a 1.8 bn-mile journey to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, to explore its subsurface ocean's potential for supporting life. The mission is targeting an October 10 launch ...
Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life – and ...
On October 10, NASA is launching a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, Europa. Called Europa ...
The surface of Mars is littered with dark cracks that resemble spiders. On Earth, NASA scientists have successfully recreated ...
As much as over 90 percent of the dwarf planet's crust could be water ice, giving some insight, the researchers believe, into ...
Planet-forming disks, maelstroms of gas and dust swirling around young stars, are nurseries that give rise to planetary ...
All of that, plus fuel, means the spacecraft tips the scales at approximately 13,000 lbs., which requires a bruiser of a ...
Nine scientific instruments will be onboard the spacecraft that will help researchers determine whether Europa, one Jupiter's moons, has habitable conditions. One of those instruments, the Surface ...
A new study on Mars' paleo-bedforms has mapped various ancient landscape features shaped by climatic forces like wind and ...
NASA researchers have uncovered how plumes of material spout every spring across the Red Planet’s surface as ice is warmed ...
A new study, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that Ceres is far icier than once thought and may have once been a muddy ...
The surface of Mars is covered in spider-like patterns, but how they formed has long been a mystery. Researchers at NASA may ...