Historically, when people have considered where to look for life elsewhere in the universe, they have focused on worlds ...

To determine if one of Jupiter’s moons is habitable, NASA launched a spacecraft called the Europa Clipper on Oct. 14, ...

In the coming weeks, NASA will launch a hotly anticipated new mission to Jupiter's fourth-largest ... a planet that's technically in the "habitable zone" of our Solar System.

Once it pulls into port at Jupiter in 2030 ... how large is the habitable zone around stars?” Building on years of advocacy from planetary scientists, in 2011 a high-level expert committee ...

NASA is set to livestream the launch of its Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will explore Jupiter’s icy moon ... of the astrobiological potential for habitable worlds beyond Earth.

During each orbit around Jupiter, the craft will spend under a day in an irradiated zone before swooping out ... If it appears habitable, NASA plans to return to Europa and land a robot on ...

Focus: Space, planetary research, icy moons, search for habitable zones +++ NASA's Europa Clipper has set off on the long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate its icy moon, Europa. The ...

A spacecraft has blasted into space on a mission that will investigate whether one of Jupiter’s moons could ... than a day in the dangerous radiation zone near Europa before zipping back out.

In a nutshell: The Europa Clipper mission is an important step in our understanding of potentially habitable worlds beyond ... the mysteries of Europa, Jupiter's ice-covered moon, which scientists ...

Most of the time, we imagine aliens as living on rocky planets inside their parent star’s habitable zone, but the truth ... on a 6-year journey to Jupiter. Once in the Jovian system, NASA ...