Europa, the sixth-closest moon to Jupiter, is slightly smaller than Earth's moon, according to NASA. Like Earth, Europa is believed to have a rocky mantle and an iron core.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — NASA has successfully launched the highly anticipated Europa Clipper mission, which will embark on a 1.8 billion-mile journey to investigate Jupiter’s moon Europa.

NASA's Europa Clipper astrobiology probe passed a major technical review today (Sept. 9), keeping the highly anticipated mission on track for its planned Oct. 10 launch.

Updated October 14, 2024 at 12:23 PM ET A spacecraft that will study one of Jupiter’s moons launched Monday on a journey of more than six years to discover if the moon has the ability to support ...

The discovery by NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe in 1979 of active volcanoes on the nearby moon Io indicated that Europa could have its own hot interior, including the kind of hydrothermal vents ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is now on its way to investigate the eponymous Jovian moon, while ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is also en route to perform two flybys of Europa as well ...

Europa is a rocky moon, home to saltwater oceans twice the volume of Earth’s, encased in a shell of ice. Scientists have long thought that Europa may be one of the best places in our solar system to ...

Europa Clipper will face a challenge once it reaches the planet's moon — exposure to radiation, since the moon is within Jupiter’s magnetic field. To combat this, the spacecraft's electronics ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is now on its way to investigate the eponymous Jovian moon, while ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is also en route to perform two flybys of Europa as well ...