A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft successfully launched Monday afternoon from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s ...

The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of instruments to survey for geologic activity, magnetism and more ...

We call these four moons the Galilean moons and their names are Io, Europa ... nearly 50 flybys of Europa allowing it to map almost the entire moon at high resolution. There are no life seeking ...

These images will give us the most-detailed map of Europa yet ... or debris blown out into space by the nearby volcanic moon Io before settling on Europa. Clipper will also be joined at the ...

Meanwhile, the waning crescent Moon stands high in the east this morning ... to the planet (with Ganymede closer still) on that side. Io, meanwhile, stands alone on Jupiter’s western side.

they are the volcanic Io (which is so close that it is stretched and squeezed by Jupiter's massive gravitational grip), Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. NASA explains that, as the second large moon ...