Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

Scientists think there is an ocean within Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA-JPL astrobiologist Kevin Hand explains why scientists ...

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NASA’s Europa Clipper isn’t just a spacecraft—it’s a feat of resilience, engineered to navigate one of the most hostile ...

In 2024, the company’s larger Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa. It is set to launch the ambitious Nancy Grace Roman Telescope in May 2027. The working ...

On Oct. 14, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft began a vital mission. It will be investigating the potential habitability of Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa — but first, it has to get there.

An illustrated depiction of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL On October 14, NASA launched Europa Clipper, its largest planetary mission spacecraft yet. It’s headed to Jupiter’s icy ...

Europa Clipper rode into space on the world's most powerful operational rocket, but it needed all of Falcon Heavy's oomph to reach a trajectory that will eventually take the spacecraft to Jupiter.

Once it launches, Europa Clipper will complete a triad of Jupiter missions currently in action, joining NASA’s Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016, and ESA’s JUpiter ICy ...

NASA just launched a spacecraft the size of a basketball court towards Jupiter's moon Europa. Here's what will happen over the next 10 years.