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

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

Launched in October 2024, Europa Clipper is on a 1.8-billion-mile (2.9-billion-kilometer) journey to study Jupiter and its moons. On March 1, it flew within 550 miles (884 kilometers) of Mars' surface ...

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

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

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission recently achieved a major milestone with a successful radar test that was carried out during a flyby of Mars. This test demonstrated the impressive capabilities of the ...

A radar on a spacecraft, intended to investigate the mystery of an extraterrestrial ocean, was never completely tested in Earthly chambers because there wasn’t a chamber large enough on our planet.

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.

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

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

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to about -190 degrees Fahrenheit. A circular region shows Elysium Mons, one of ...

A new study suggests that cosmic radiation could potentially provide the energy to kick-start extraterrestrial life deep ...