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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A space instrument created to try and find out whether there’s life beyond Earth will launch this month after being designed and built by a team at the ...

The UVS instrument recorded spatial information produced by hydrogen atoms radiating from the Earth. In the background a number of individual stars are identified along with the Pleiades star cluster.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has successfully deployed two of its science instruments as it makes its way to the Jupiter system. "Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for ...

As Southwest Research Institute adds to its space exploration resume with a six-year mission to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s moons, an investigator on the project says it’s also a hunt ...

The JUICE mission is at the very beginning of its eight-year journey to Jupiter and its moons, but one of its science instruments is already misbehaving. The European Space Agency’s Jovian probe is ...

In about eight years, a gold tubular instrument will orbit around Jupiter on a spacecraft, and will repeatedly fly by a cloud of particles ejected from the surface of Europa — one of Jupiter’s moons — ...

Europe's JUICE spacecraft is now in its full flight configuration, six weeks after the flagship mission launched for Jupiter. The Flight Control Team for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, has ...

A University of Colorado Boulder instrument has been selected to fly on a NASA mission to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean that may provide conditions ...

NASA/JPL announced on Tuesday the selection of nine science instruments for an upcoming mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. While this might appear as a run-of-the-mill NASA press conference, we may ...