The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa — much closer than the few previous visitors.

Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The ...

NASA has launched the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will investigate whether the Jovian moon has conditions that support ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there.

A massive NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft named Europa Clipper will peer beneath the ...

Scientists are eager to see if Europa's subsurface ocean could support life, as NASA's Europa Clipper is scheduled to begin ...

Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplanetary spacecraft ever to ...

The $5 billion Europa Clipper will launch from the Kennedy Space Center on Monday for a four-year trek to Jupiter's moon to ...

NASA launched its Europa Clipper spacecraft Monday atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for its first mission to Jupiter since ...

NASA is on its way to Jupiter. Aside from earth, experts think one of Jupiter’s moons is the most promising place for humans ...