NASA's long-awaited mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of extraterrestrial life appears to be back on track after Hurricane Milton forced a delay. Before the ...

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NASA's Europa Clipper is about ... but will be much faster than traveling straight to Jupiter. Gravity assists have become common practice for spacecraft venturing to the far reaches of our ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a new lease on life as NASA ... earlier Pioneer 10 and 11 missions.

The goal of the mission is to circle one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, 50 times and take data and pictures to send back to NASA. Scientists believe the icy surface gives way to oceans that have ...

This mission will be joining a large family of spacecraft that have either flown past Jupiter or spent time in orbit around ...

Emily Costello, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was selected by NASA as one of eight ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper craft was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket, aiming to conduct its first mission to study Jupiter’s icy ocean moon Europa. Photo: John Raoux/AP ...