"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is using Mars and Earth’s gravity to travel efficiently to Jupiter. The spacecraft will study Europa’s ...

After ten years of development and construction, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is just months away from departing Earth on ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Soon, they may have answers. In October, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will send Europa Clipper, a satellite orbiter with nine analytical instruments, to Europa to study its ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA’s Europa Clipper, now en route to Jupiter, departed with less-than-satisfactory and vulnerable devices that are susceptible to Jupiter’s ...

This model is configured with the shorter, 14-meter Delta 4 payload fairing (PLF) that would encapsulate Europa Clipper. The “Jupiter Direct” trajectory is performance-challenging for the ...

Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...

NASA has been preparing for their Europa Clipper mission since 2013, when the mission’s pre-project was approved. The spacecraft is roughly the length of a basketball court, making it the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today (March 1), NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly past Mars, gliding just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the Red Planet's surface. This maneuver is designed to ...