On 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On ...

On October 29, 1991, the Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...

The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of instruments to survey for geologic activity, magnetism and more ...

Europa Clipper, the largest planetary science mission ever launched by NASA, will travel 1.8 billion miles and spend four years orbiting Jupiter's icy moon.

Then, in 1994, shortly before NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reached Jupiter, Prockter became a graduate student at Brown University, studying under a co-investigator of the mission’s imaging campaign.

Credit: NASA Europa's surface as captured by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Credit: NASA Then, in the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission captured legendary views of Europa's chaotic, ridged surface ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft had repeated flybys of the moon during the 1990s, passing as close as 124 miles. Still in action around Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has added to Europa’s photo ...

a mission set to explore the workings of another ... ridges crisscross Europa in this color composite view from NASA’s Galileo probe, hinting at deeper geological activity that has cracked ...

A follow-up mission, named Galileo, orbited Jupiter for nearly eight years in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Galileo probe discovered a signature that Europa hides a watery ocean below its ...

NASA is set to launch a jumbo spacecraft, Europa Clipper, to see if an icy moon of Jupiter has the characteristics of a habitable world.