NASA never formally requested a lander for Europa, and the president’s latest budget request noted that the administration had no intention of funding such a program.

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.

Europa’s inner ocean may be capable of supporting simple lifeforms. A proposed lander may go and look for them in the 2030s. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NASA’s ambitious plan toexplore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons, has faced a significant setback. The agency has officially canceled the Europa Lander mission, a project that ...

NASA has asked scientists to submit their ideas for instruments for a possible Europa lander mission, which would look for signs of past or present life on the ocean-harboring Jupiter moon.

That's an exciting prospect for NASA, which aims to put a lander on Europa in the 2020s to look for chemical evidence that the moon could support life.

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 ...

Bolden has said NASA should fully explore Europa with a flyby mission before building and flying a lander to Jupiter's ice-covered moon, which contains a vast, subsurface ocean.

A proposed Europa lander under study at JPL could use the same "sky crane" technology that successfully landed the Curiosity Mars rover (above) in 2012. Credit: NASA/JPL WASHINGTON — Despite ...

NASA is headed to Jupiter's fascinating moon Europa this year. Scientists suspect a deep ocean sloshes beneath the icy world's crust. The looming mission, called Europa Clipper, will launch in ...

NASA's Europa Mission May Get a Lander After All. Initially intended as an orbiter, NASA is now exploring sending a small lander as well. By John Wenz Published: Sep 09, 2015 11:00 AM EDT.