NASA probe launches aboard SpaceX rocket to search for the building blocks of life on Europa, Jupiter's icy ocean moon.

Advertisement NASA Launches Europa Clipper to Explore an Ocean Moon’s Habitability The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to ...

Europa Clipper launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, kicking off a highly anticipated astrobiology mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa.

NASA estimates Europa Clipper will travel 1.8 billion miles and enter Jupiter’s orbit on April 11, 2030, after which the spacecraft will make 49 flybys of Europa over four years.

A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has lifted off. NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft — designed to explore its namesake ...

A massive NASA mission to explore if one of Jupiter’s moons could support life launched Monday morning from Florida.

NASA successfully launched a vehicle meant to explore an ocean-covered world in our solar system and seek out the building blocks for life. Once it reaches its destination, the Europa Clipper will ...

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 ...

It was all cheers at JPL on Monday morning, Oct. 14. NASA’s Europa Clipper, managed out of the Pasadena campus and carrying the most sophisticated probing devices ever sent to the outer solar ...

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 ...

NASA is weeks away from sending its Clipper orbiter on a journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, which scientists believe could harbor conditions for life.

NASA's Europa Clipper launches on mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon The spacecraft will complete nearly 50 flybys of the Jupiter moon of Europa to determine if there are conditions suitable ...