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

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

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

And many in the science community are now wondering about the fate of one of the congressman’s pet projects — a lander to travel to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. Culberson has long had a ...

The mission cost estimated for an SLS-launched Europa lander was about $5 billion, making it prohibitively expensive for NASA or any other agency without significant sacrifices to other missions.

A group of scientists and engineers charged by NASA to outline a lander concept for the exploration of Jupiter’s moon Europa came out with its “Science Definition Team” report last week ...

And NASA is also working on a possible post-Clipper lander mission that would search for evidence of life at or near the Europan surface. It's unclear, however, just how deep a Europa lander would ...

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 bold life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa was shut out yet again in the 2019 federal budget proposal, but NASA still aims to see it fly. The budget ...

A second even more ambitious mission would seek to actually land on Europa, sample its ice, and look for signs of life. Both missions, but especially the lander, would be among the most complex ...