The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa — much closer than the few previous visitors.

For decades, an icy moon of Jupiter has been considered one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there.

NASA has launched its Europa Clipper spacecraft, the biggest one it has ever built for a mission heading to another planet, ...

The space agency believes Jupiter’s moon is one of the “most promising places” to find habitable environments in the solar ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, ...

NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions ...

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer ...

Scientists are eager to see if Europa's subsurface ocean could support life, as NASA's Europa Clipper is scheduled to begin ...

People have long since wondered if any other planets in our solar system could house us and other life forms, and after ...

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and ...