"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is using Mars and Earth’s gravity to travel efficiently to Jupiter. The spacecraft will study Europa’s ...

NASA's Europa Clipper will streak just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the surface of Mars for what's known as a gravity assist—a maneuver to bend the spacecraft's trajectory and position it for a ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo a gravitational slingshot maneuver as it streaks above Mars.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA’s Europa Clipper, now en route to Jupiter, departed with less-than-satisfactory and vulnerable devices that are susceptible to Jupiter’s ...

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's fourth-largest moon ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

It was a history making launch -- when NASA’s Europa Clipper embarked on its long five-year voyage to Jupiter. The $5 billion spacecraft is the largest ever built for a mission headed to another ...

NASA has been preparing for their Europa Clipper mission since 2013, when the mission’s pre-project was approved. The spacecraft is roughly the length of a basketball court, making it the ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today (March 1), NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will fly past Mars, gliding just 550 miles (884 kilometers) above the Red Planet's surface. This maneuver is designed to ...