A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was originally known as the Europa Lander prototype—a partially autonomous robot ...

A report on the potential science value of a lander on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has been delivered to NASA, and the agency is now engaging the broader science community to open a ...

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A decade ago, audiences were treated to an adventure into the far reaches of our solar system. Six astronauts board a state of the art spacecraft on an exploratory mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, in ...

C.15 Planetary Protection Research has been updated to indicate that up to three additional projects in support of icy satellite surface technology development and/or a Europa Lander mission may be ...

NASA reminds me of the Republicans attacking Trump. Even though their strategy (try to get public opinion behind them with stunts) sucks and doesn't work, they never learn. 1. Build infrastructure in ...

When you’re searching for signs of alien life, you’d really like definitive answers. But so far most of humanity’s forays into the Solar System seeking signs of life have returned only ambiguity. Take ...

In the 1970s, NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Will scientists searching for signs of life elsewhere in the ...

Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is one of the most fascinating places in the solar system. A little smaller than Earth's moon, Europa is has subsurface water where-just maybe-life could exist. The problem ...

Recently, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide at a specific location on Europa’s icy surface in a disrupted “chaos terrain” called the Tara Regio. The ...