sending a $5.2 billion NASA probe on a 1.8-billion-mile voyage to Jupiter to find out if one of its moons hosts a habitable sub-surface ocean. Liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center took place at ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

The mission's main objective is to investigate whether the moon is habitable. Its icy surface ... but will be much faster than traveling straight to Jupiter. Gravity assists have become common ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

The probe's destination is Europa, a moon of Jupiter coated with a shell of ice ... could indeed be habitable. Europa Clipper, with its massive solar arrays, spans the length of a basketball ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

NASA engineer Rayme Traub, from Sherrard, will discuss his scientific contributions as part of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s event ...

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

NASA scientists have confirmed, for the first time, the existence of water above the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. The study published in ... in the atmosphere to decide on whether it ...

JUICE - which stands for JUpiter ICy Moons Explorer ... The aim of the mission is to find out if any of the moons are habitable and can support life. There are scientific instruments on board ...

This maneuver is designed to adjust the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a critical phase in its 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) trek to the Jupiter system. However ...