The Latest Breaking News from NASA

Europa Clipper launched today (Oct. 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida, kicking off a highly anticipated astrobiology mission to the Jupiter ocean moon Europa.

A NASA spacecraft has blasted off on a quest to explore Jupiter's moon Europa and reveal whether its hidden ocean might hold the keys to life

I had enough trouble making rockets go up up up, never mind down down down.

$5bn Nasa mission will assess whether ice-covered moon that is thought to have twice Earth’s water is habitable

Is there anywhere else in our solar system that could support life? If our solar system turns out to be home to two habitable worlds (Europa and Earth), "think of what that means when you extend that result to the billions and billions of other solar systems in this galaxy,"…

See the latest updates for the launch of NASA's Europa Clipper to Jupiter's icy moon here.

Explore NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, seeking signs of life and habitability in our solar system.

Explore public sentiment towards space exploration, highlighting SpaceX's impact and historical perspectives on lunar missions.

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip.