Like all spacecraft leading up to their launch date, NASA’s Europa Clipper has been undergoing rigorous tests and checkouts to ensure all systems are functioning properly, with NASA engineers recently ...

This is a high-gain antenna (HGA) and a future version of it will send and receive signals to and from Earth from a looping orbit around Jupiter. The antenna will take that long journey aboard NASA’s ...

After ten years of development and construction, NASA's Europa Clipper mission is just months away from departing Earth on its journey to the Jovian system. The five-year trip will subject the ...

For a while earlier this summer, it looked like NASA's flagship mission to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa might miss its launch window this year. In May, engineers raised concerns that transistors ...

After a big setback, the spacecraft's team hopes to assess how well the moon could support life. NASA is poised to launch Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, as ...