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Europa Clipper is NASA’s bold mission to investigate whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could harbor life beneath its frozen ...
Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla aboard the International Space Station. PM Modi asked the astronaut if he had brought along 'gajar ka halwa,' to which Shukla ...
Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...
In a historic milestone for India's space journey, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla ...
The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...
Scientists think there is an ocean within Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA-JPL astrobiologist Kevin Hand explains why scientists are so excited about the potential of this ice-covered world to answer one ...
Could a liquid water ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa have the ingredients to support life? Here's how NASA's mission to Europa would find out. Could a liquid water ocean beneath the ...
The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and ...
NASA Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Europa, but it has some stops to make before it investigates the habitability of the icy ocean moon of Jupiter, including a Mars trip and a brief ...
An illustrated depiction of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL On October 14, NASA launched Europa Clipper, its largest planetary mission spacecraft yet. It’s headed to Jupiter’s icy ...
A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is ...