Or, if you aren’t an early bird, you can catch Europa transiting at 10:18 p.m. EST Dec. 5. It can be hard to distinguish the moon once it passes in front of Jupiter, but you can watch the ...

The Moon passes 5° north of Jupiter at 9 A.M. EDT. Just six percent illuminated by this evening, you can try to spot the young crescent Moon hanging above the gas giant in the western sky after ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, ... and its elliptical orbit whips it around Jupiter once every 42.5 hours.

The $5.2 billion mission is expected to end in 2034, when Europa Clipper will slam into Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. NASA has previously sent a much smaller probe, Juno, into orbit around ...

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is suspected of harboring a vast ocean that may be capable of supporting life. The $5-billion Europa Clipper spacecraft is the largest interplanetary probe ever built ...

Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter first seen by Galileo 414 years ago, may have a deep, salty, global ocean hidden beneath a thick crust of ice. Where there is water, there might be life.

NASA has launched its Europa Clipper mission to the icy moon of Jupiter. Thought to contain an underground ocean and potentially habitable environment, Europa has long been a tantalizing target.

NASA launches Europa Clipper to probe Jupiter moon 05:17. One day after launching a Starship rocket on a dramatic test flight in Texas, SpaceX fired off a Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida on ...

Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to the Jupiter moon Europa to search for evidence that the world could be habitable.

NASA's Europa Clipper probe will study Jupiter's moon Europa, which is thought to have an underground ocean and a potentially habitable environment. Skip to content. Main Navigation.