New research has the answer. By studying the composition of meteorites that have landed over the years and the asteroids ...

A new breakthrough in the study of meteorites has revealed that over 70% of meteorites that strike Earth come from just three ...

Until now, only 6% of meteorites had a known source, but now we can trace the origin of more than 70% of these rocks.

NASA's Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft ever built for an interplanetary mission, has launched from Kennedy Space ...

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NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launched by SpaceX Falcon Heavy, embarks on a six-year journey to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, utilizing gravity assists and aiming to study its icy subsurface ocean.

A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has lifted off.

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

NASA’s largest spacecraft Europa Clipper has launched on a historic mission to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, in search of potential ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there.

The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the sun and eight planets as it extends trillions of miles into deep space.

About the size of a basketball court with its solar wings unfurled, Clipper will swing past Mars and then Earth on its way to ...