What does it take to demonstrate a radar system is ready to look through the frozen crust of a distant moon when the ultimate ...

As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...

Europa Clipper cost about $3.8 billion to make and launch, and it will cost another $1.2 billion to operate until it completes its core mission in 2034, according to the Planetary Society.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy ...

The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in space. To see a labeled view, swipe the slider above to the left.

NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The ...

On Oct. 14, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft began a vital mission. It will be investigating the potential habitability of Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa — but first, it has to get there.

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1.

On Europa Clipper: ‘Our Earthly emissary will visit a place we cannot’ Its mission is to study whether one of Jupiter’s moons has the characteristics necessary for life.