NASA’s ambitious plan toexplore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons, has faced a significant setback. The agency has officially canceled the Europa Lander mission, a project that ...

NASA budget cuts would scrap a proposed mission to one of Jupiter's moon. The Europa lander mission would supposedly drill through ice into the moon’s subterranean ocean to find signs of life.

The Europa Lander could be placed back on. A mission to Saturn’s frozen world Enceladus may also be greenlit. The SLS is the result of a Faustian bargain struck between NASA and Congress in 2010.

Congress also directed NASA to launch the Europa lander aboard an SLS. Unlike Clipper, however, ... Trump's 2026 budget plan would cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return mission.

The omnibus bill includes $1.195 billion for NASA’s Human Landing System (HLS) program to develop a lunar lander version of SpaceX’s Starship vehicle for the Artemis 3 and potentially future ...

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 ...

NASA is headed to Jupiter's fascinating moon Europa this year. Scientists suspect a deep ocean sloshes beneath the icy world's crust. The looming mission, called Europa Clipper, will launch in ...

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 ...