Europa Clipper has set sail at long last. NASA's Europa Clipper probe launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, kicking off a ...

There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured a thermal image of Mars during a gravity-assist flyby, testing instruments ahead of its mission to explore Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa.

On a mission to discover if one of Jupiter's 4 moons, Europa, supports life, NASA's robotic spacecraft, Clipper, has captured a close-range image of Mars.Although its mission began a few months ...

NASA engineers have spent the past decade developing a rugged, partially autonomous lander designed to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons. The space agency got cold feet over the ...

The New Horizons spacecraft became the first spacecraft to explore Pluto up close when it flew by the dwarf planet and its moons on July 14, 2015.. In 2019, the space probe reached the Kuiper belt ...

Trump looks to axe many NASA space missions that launched from Florida: Here's a look at 6 The budget request proposes slashing NASA funding by nearly 25% mostly by eliminating a significant ...