NASA probe launches aboard SpaceX rocket to search for the building blocks of life on Europa, Jupiter's icy ocean moon.

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Europa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean ...

A frozen “ocean world” is the likeliest place in the solar system to foster alien life. Louise Prockter and her colleagues ...

The Europa Clipper launched Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket propelling it on a six-year journey to reach its ...

NASA's Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft ever built for an interplanetary mission, has launched from Kennedy Space ...

NASA probe Europa Clipper lifted off from the US Kennedy Space Center on Monday, bound for an icy moon of Jupiter to discover ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper, the largest robotic probe the agency has ever built, rocketed into space Monday on a mission to ...

Europa Clipper launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, kicking off a highly anticipated ...

We want to determine whether Europa has potential to support simple life in deep ocean, beneath its icy layer,’ says project ...

NASA is set to launch a jumbo spacecraft, Europa Clipper, to see if an icy moon of Jupiter has the characteristics of a ...

Scientists are eager to see if Europa's subsurface ocean could support life, as NASA's Europa Clipper is scheduled to begin ...

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...