A SpaceX rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida today, carrying with it NASA’s US$5-billion dream of finding hints of life on a distant moon. The mission — the most ambitious hunt ...

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is ... space agency to uncover new details about the moon, which scientists believe could hold an ocean ...

The moon likely has a rocky core, and if there is volcanic activity on the Europan seafloor, like there is on Earth, then key molecules for life may seep into the ocean. Europa Clipper is not ...

Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles to reach Europa, a deeply mysterious moon orbiting Jupiter. It will not arrive until 2030 but what it finds could change what we know about life in ...

s there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? An imposing NASA probe is ... space agency to uncover new details about the moon, which scientists believe could hold an ocean ...

Moment Nasa spacecraft blasts off to hunt alien life on Jupiter moon A spacecraft that will hunt for signs of alien life on one of Jupiter’s icy moons has blasted off from Cape Canaveral ...

The Europa Clipper mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about the moon, which scientists ... most promising places to look for life beyond Earth," said NASA official ...

Why Europa? The distant, ice-covered moon shows "strong evidence" of an ocean of liquid water beneath its ice, NASA says. In that water could be "all the ingredients needed for life as we know it." ...

to find out is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? The Europa Clipper mission will allow the US space agency to uncover new details about the moon, which scientists ...

The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter, and carry out 49 close flybys of Europa – one of its 95 moons. Some evidence suggests that the ingredients for life may exist on the moon right now. On each orbit, ...