Europa Clipper has launched: Spacecraft traveling to Jupiter's icy moon to look for signs of life

The Europa Clipper launched Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket propelling it on a six-year journey to reach its namesake icy ocean world. Read More

When will NASA launch Europa Clipper? What to know about long-awaited mission to Jupiter's moon

NASA's mission to send a spacecraft to scour Jupiter's moon Europa for signs of life appears back on track after Hurricane Milton forced a delay. Read More

Coming in 2025: From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical milestone for ... Read More

Understanding the Europa Clipper Cost: A Deep Dive into NASA’s Jupiter Mission Budget

The Europa Clipper cost is estimated to be around $5 billion. This mission aims to investigate Europa’s potential for supporting life. The spacecraft is the largest NASA has built for a planetary ... Read More

Earth’s deep-sea microbes could hold the key to finding life on Europa

Earth’s deep-sea hydrothermal vents provide a model for understanding how life could exist on Europa. Holden’s team is studying how vent microbes generate energy using hydrogenases to predict what ... Read More

Alien life might be able to eat cosmic shrapnel from dying stars

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for potential alien life elsewhere. Read More

NASA scientists make startling discovery about alien life in our very own solar system: ‘Big implications’

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ... Read More