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’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 ...

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 ...

Hand’s team, building their robot, had to figure out a design that could deal with all these issues. The work on the robotic system for the Europa lander mission began more than 10 years ago.

NASA is preparing for substantial budget cuts that may force the cancellation of ongoing and upcoming missions across the solar system, leaving it facing a “brutal” future, experts have warned.

In the end, the researchers found that 12 of the 49 scheduled flybys of Europa Clipper were considered “reconable” flybys, meaning they could be used to scout for potential landing sites for a future ...