The moon was first discovered by the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610, and a NASA spacecraft named after him later flew by and discovered that Europa was likely to have a subsurface ocean.

Europa Clipper has set sail at long last. NASA's Europa Clipper probe launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, kicking off a ...

on Monday morning carrying a NASA probe designed to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and search for the building blocks of life. With the Europa Clipper now on its 1.8-billion mile, 5½-year ...

So with Clipper, we will explore the habitability of Europa in order to determine ... a mission project scientist out of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the probe will orbit Jupiter ...

The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary ... have indicated that Europa has a vast subsurface ocean, and this mission is designed to explore the possibility that life ...

“It’s a chance for us to explore not a world that might ... Still in action around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has added to Europa’s photo album. Arriving at Jupiter a year after ...