Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has outlined the decade-long development and testing of what was ...

NASA’s ambitious plan toexplore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons, has faced a significant setback. The agency ...

Europa and Enceladus are two ocean moons ... if there’s really life in there or not. To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team has been working on a robot ...

More recently, NASA undertook a detailed study of a Europa lander concept that could search for biosignatures on Europa’s surface,” said Vance. Williams shared a very inspiring view of the ...

Over the course of four months American space agency NASA tested no less than four technologies meant to make landing easier.

NASA engineers have spent the past decade developing a rugged, partially autonomous lander designed to explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons. The space agency got cold feet over the ...

However, NASA, with the backing of key congressional leaders, has held an iron grip on having its own heavy-lift launcher and ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace said its lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned. But there was no immediate word on the ...