NASA explains that, as the second large moon out from Jupiter, Europa is quite deep inside Jupiter's magnetosphere, the immense magnetic envelope generated by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.

In a groundbreaking revelation that has reshaped the way we look at our Solar System, Nasa's Galileo spacecraft made a ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated ... would fry any electronics that remain too long inside its influence (and may give the moon a blue or green glow). But the spacecraft will swoop ...

Europa, whose diameter of roughly 1,940 miles (3,100 km) is approximately 90% that of our moon, has been viewed ... a vault made of titanium and aluminum inside the Europa Clipper to protect ...

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable environment.

Prior to liftoff, the craft had been encapsulated inside a payload fairing ... which will probe Europa’s icy shell for signs of the moon’s suspected ocean. The radar will also study the ...

Image The Jupiter moon Europa captured by the Juno spacecraft ... Image Attaching the Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is ... That’s why Clipper’s electronics are inside a vault with dense aluminum and zinc walls. All this radiation would ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust where an ocean is thought to be sloshing fairly close to the surface ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is ... That's why Clipper's electronics are inside a vault with dense aluminum and zinc walls. All this radiation would nix ...