Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, the solar system’s largest storm, wiggles like gelatin and contracts like a stress ball, new ...
Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface.
NASA's Europa Clipper will soon be on its way to explore one of the most compelling worlds in our solar system: Jupiter ...
It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...
The goal for Europa Clipper, which will reach Jupiter's orbit in 2030, is to see if life is possible on Jupiter's moon Europa ...
And it very nearly did not happen. That's the story I want to tell here.
Here's the winding road NASA's Europa Clipper must take through the Solar System to reach a special Jupiter moon.
But Mars and Earth are not the only places in the solar system that either have, or have had, water. On October 13th, if all ...
In either case, Jupiter's gravity played and still plays a major role in clearing out the inner Solar System of the largest (and most dangerous) debris. The Sun accounts for some 99.86% of the ...