NASA’s ambitious plan toexplore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons, has faced a significant setback. The agency ...

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

Now that Culberson is about to leave public office, the Europa lander will no longer have its champion, making its future at NASA uncertain. NASA never formally requested a lander for Europa ...

To the disappointment of more than a few people, when NASA announced the Europa Multiple Fly-by Mission, it had a big drawback: no lander. Instead, it would serve as an orbiter around Jupiter ...

A conception of the Europa Lander settled down on the icy moon's surface. Credit: NASA NASA is headed to Jupiter's fascinating moon Europa this year. Scientists suspect a deep ocean sloshes ...

A potential NASA life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa is really starting to take shape. The stationary Europa lander would use three different instrument ...

A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was ...

Artemis astronauts could bring home samples of it When the sun dies, could life survive on the Jupiter ocean moon Europa? That's an exciting prospect for NASA, which aims to put a lander on Europa ...

After studying the mission, Braun said a Europa lander that could find signs of life on another world represents exactly the kind of cutting-edge, daring missions NASA should be pursuing. " ...

A proposed Europa lander under study at JPL could use the same "sky crane" technology that successfully landed the Curiosity Mars rover (above) in 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL WASHINGTON — Despite ...

SEATTLE, April 30 (Reuters) - U.S. space agency NASA has told Elon Musk’s SpaceX to halt work under a contract it won to develop a lunar spacecraft, pending the outcome of challenges by rival ...

In other words, it's against the law to fly the mission to Europa without a lander. The overall budget for NASA provides $19.2 billion for NASA in fiscal year 2016, about $700 million more than ...