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 ...

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 ...

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. " ...

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.

Scientists hope the lander could be launched some time in the 2020s. Although Nasa has yet to approve the mission, the agency said it had funding to begin the search for instrument ideas.

The lander is being prepared ready for after Nasa’s solar-powered flyby of Europa is expected to launch in the early 2020s. That will be able to take a variety of high-definition images of the ...

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 ...

Scientists hope the lander could be launched some time in the 2020s. Although Nasa has yet to approve the mission, the agency said it had funding to begin the search for instrument ideas.