as well as the Voyager 1 and 2 probes in 1979. NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016. The Clipper's impending trip to Europa represents the most ambitious attempt to ...

The finding could change the way astronomers understand moons dominated by subsurface global oceans in our solar system, such as Jupiter’s moon Europa and planets beyond our solar system.

“So, every six times that Europa goes around Jupiter, or every 21 days, we’ll be in the exact spot in the universe to be right next to Europa ... NASA’s Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Galileo ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured a thermal image of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby, testing instruments ahead of ...

For over 25 years, the scientific community has looked forward to the exploration of Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon ... were captured in 1979 by NASA's Voyager probes. The Voyager spacecraft ...

Both visited Jupiter and used it to gain momentum towards Saturn, where their paths diverged: Voyager 1 catapulted out of the plane of the solar system there, Voyager 2 set course for Uranus and ...

The Voyager 1 was designed to study magnetic fields and weather as it conducted flybys of Jupiter and Saturn before ... moons (including Ganymede, Io, Europa, Enceladus, Titan, Iapetus, and ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. Monday, beginning a nearly six-year ... of Jupiter’s radiation belts to downlink data, uplink new commands, and prepare for the next ...

With the liquid oxygen loading underway, if SpaceX has to delay today's launch for any reason, the next ... NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has begun its 1.8 billion-mile trek to Jupiter and ...