The brains of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft are stored in a metal vault. It's where the large exploration vehicle — the ...
Lockheed Martin, in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, initiated a 100-hour "creep" test in ...
Nasa has successfully sent a laser signal about 290 million miles, smashing previous records and potentially transforming our ...
The sun has reached its "solar maximum period," which is a state of heightened activity in its 11-year solar cycle. It's ...
Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new observations from Hubble Space Telescope find.
NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there.
Europa, Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, has been hailed as one of the most likely locations for aliens to exist in our solar system. Now NASA may have the chance to find out, as its ambitious ...
Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.
NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane ...
The Europa Clipper blasted off on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to investigate whether one of Jupiter's moons has the ...
The spacecraft lifted off Monday on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a nearly six-year journey to Jupiter.