Bob Pappalardo and his wife Mabel live near Pasadena, California, though they have had a second home here in Westminster West, Vermont since 2016. Recently turned 60, he has been a planetary scientist ...

A dedicated mission Once it launches, Europa Clipper will complete a triad of Jupiter missions currently in action, joining NASA's Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016, and ESA's ...

NASA installed the solar array for the Europa Clipper spacecraft, a robotic craft with a mission to reach Jupiter’s moon Europa by 2030. The large moon is one of 95 that orbit Jupiter ...

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 ...