NASA JPL’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest planetary probe ever built, will launch as early as Friday to explore Jupiter’s icy ocean moon. Oct. 9, 2024 ...

With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5½-year journey to the solar system's largest planet, NASA has officially retired a “tremendous amount of risk on the mission,” according ...

NASA's 100-foot-long and approximately 58-foot-wide Clipper probe is the largest spacecraft the agency has built for a planetary mission and will travel 1.8 billion miles to Europa.

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft launched at 12:06 p.m. Monday, beginning a nearly six-year, 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter, where it will study the frozen moon Europa, scanning below its ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper, managed out of the Pasadena campus and carrying the most sophisticated probing devices ever sent to the outer solar system, rocketed away at 9:06 a.m. Pacific Time aboard ...

Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The launch window itself is set to open at 12:06 p.m. ET.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Europa Clipper spacecraft aboard launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral on October 14, 2024.

NASA launched Europa Clipper on Monday following years of bureaucratic red tape, technical difficulties, and last-minute weather concerns. The spacecraft is now on its way to investigate Europa ...

With the launch window set to open as soon as Oct. 10, NASA officials took the time Tuesday to provide an update on the Europa Clipper mission during a news conference. "Our journey of exploration ...

A massive NASA mission to explore if one of Jupiter’s moons could support life launched Monday morning from Florida. The Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy ...