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

Now that Culberson is about to leave public office, the Europa lander will no longer have its champion, making its future at NASA uncertain. NASA never formally requested a lander for Europa ...

Europa Lander would follow in its wake and touch down on the ice in order to better investigate the possibility of life. But according to a nine-month investigation conducted by the NASA Office of ...

Another proposed Europa mission involves sending a lander to the moon that could determine if it harbors life. In a report submitted last February, the NASA-employed Science Definition Team ...

A conception of the Europa Lander settled down on the icy moon's surface. Credit: NASA NASA is headed to Jupiter's fascinating moon Europa this year. Scientists suspect a deep ocean sloshes ...

After studying the mission, Braun said a Europa lander that could find signs of life on another world represents exactly the kind of cutting-edge, daring missions NASA should be pursuing. " ...

To the disappointment of more than a few people, when NASA announced the Europa Multiple Fly-by Mission, it had a big drawback: no lander. Instead, it would serve as an orbiter around Jupiter ...

WASHINGTON — Faced with a congressional mandate to add a lander to a planned mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, NASA is considering launching the lander separately from the main mission.

A potential NASA life-hunting mission to the surface of Jupiter's ocean-harboring moon Europa is really starting to take shape. The stationary Europa lander would use three different instrument ...

NASA is in the process of planning a flyby mission to Europa, but now the agency is actively looking into adding a lander to the payload. Our first close encounter with Europa might be even closer ...

In other words, it's against the law to fly the mission to Europa without a lander. The overall budget for NASA provides $19.2 billion for NASA in fiscal year 2016, about $700 million more than ...