What does it take to demonstrate a radar system is ready to look through the frozen crust of a distant moon when the ultimate ...

In the universe of planetary exploration, some experiments are so bold that even Earth’s biggest laboratories can’t hold them literally. As NASA’s Europa Clipper flew by Mars in March 2025, it wasn’t ...

As it soared past Mars in March, NASA's Europa Clipper conducted a critical radar test that had been impossible to accomplish ...

The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory.

American space agency NASA says it used the gravity assist maneuver the Europa Clipper conducted back in March to test the ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...

Europa Clipper's radar instrument received echoes of its very-high-frequency radar signals that bounced off Mars and were ...

NASA's Europa Clipper nailed a major radar test during a Mars flyby, proving it’s ready to peer into Europa’s mysterious icy shell and search for underground oceans.

Electrons released when cosmic rays strike water-ice can provide energy for microbes and facilitate the formation of complex ...

NASA scientists recently used Europa Clipper’s instruments to take readings of Mars, as the spacecraft was passing within just 550 miles of the red planet’s surface on March 1.

From a half-million miles away, NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured Mars with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, in ...

While Europa Clipper flew past Mars on March 1, the thousands of grayscale images it obtained weren’t transmitted to Earth until May 5. After running the images through specialized software that ...