How a robot built to walk on alien ice got the cold shoulder—and then (possibly) lived to see another day. Reading time 2 minutes NASA engineers have spent the past decade developing a rugged, ...

NASA’s originally planned lander to Europa was cancelled in 2023, but the technology behind it could be used to explore Enceladus instead, the organization has announced. Called the Europa Clipper, it ...

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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 ...

Europa and Enceladus are two ocean moons that scientists have concluded have liquid water oceans underneath their outer icy shells. The Europa Clipper mission should reach Europa around April of 2030.