A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have traveled to distant locations — Antarctica and its ice sheets, Chile and ...

An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, that whip around each ...

NASA and SpaceX have launched NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

NASA’s Europa Clipper lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center for an anticipated ...

Astronomers have yet to confirm the existence of exomoons, but a molecular signal around a far away star offers some of the ...

Two Southwest Research Institute instruments were launched aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 14 from the agency ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched Monday afternoon from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s ...

Everything about the Europa Clipper mission is huge. Sent to investigate the ice-covered and perhaps habitable second moon of ...

It will take Europa Clipper 5½ years to reach Jupiter, where it will slip into orbit around the giant gas planet and sneak close to Europa during dozens of radiation-drenched flybys.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launched by SpaceX Falcon Heavy, embarks on a six-year journey to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, utilizing gravity assists and aiming to study its icy subsurface ocean.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a journey to Jupiter's moon Europa, an ...