The Europa Clipper launched Monday afternoon aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which is designed to help propel the spacecraft on a six-year journey to reach its namesake moon, an icy ocean world.

NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...

Historians will look back on 2024 as a special year for spaceflight. From SpaceX plucking a huge rocket out of the sky to the first privately funded spacewalk to the launch of a $5 billion mission ...

From SpaceX plucking a huge rocket out of the sky to the first ... After using the gravity of Mars and Earth as a slingshot, Europa Clipper is targeted to reach its destination in 2030 after ...

Historians will look back on 2024 as a special year for spaceflight. From SpaceX plucking a huge rocket out of the sky to the first privately funded spacewalk to the launch of a $5 billion mission to ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...

Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...

Launched on Aug. 12, 2018, the probe is the fastest human-made object in existence. It used flybys of Venus to adjust its orbit increasingly closer to the solar surface. It completed its seventh and ...

A team at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex is tasked with making "first contact" with NASA's largest and most expensive spacecraft, the Europa Clipper, on its journey to Jupiter's ...

Viavi Solutions Inc. VIAV recently revealed its key contribution to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The company is providing a precision order sorting filter for the spacecraft’s Mapping ...

The Europa Clipper launches for Jupiter’s ice-shrouded ... Originally the probe was going to be launched on a Space Launch System rocket but was switched to the cheaper, easier to launch Falcon ...