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European spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter and its icy moons

A European spacecraft has blasted off on a quest to explore Jupiter and three of its ice-encrusted moons

The Independent UK

Juice Jupiter rocket to search for life on moons blasts off in vital space mission

The six-tonne probe, named Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), has blasted off on Thursday to the solar system's biggest planet to see if its ocean-bearing moons support life

Daily Mirror

Astronomers have directly detected a massive exoplanet. The method could transform the search for life beyond Earth

Finding life on other planets might well be the holy grail of astronomy, but the hunt for suitable host planets that can sustain life is a resource-intensive task.

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Explaining JUICE: Mission to Jupiter and its moons

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is the European Space Agency’s $1.7bn exploration programme for the Jovian orbit.

Al Jazeera

Launch of Juice space mission to assess chance of life on Jupiter’s moons postponed

The launch of a spacecraft on a mission to explore Jupiter and three of its moons has been postponed until Friday due to a lightning risk.

Evening Standard

The much-anticipated JUICE mission to Jupiter launches today. Here's what it might discover

Editor’s note (April 14 2023): The 13 April launch was postponed due to weather conditions, but the team will attempt another launch on 14 April at 10:14pm AEST. You can follow the launch live via ESA Web TV.

The Conversation

Scientists launch JUICE mission to explore Jupiter's icy moons

Could we discover conditions necessary for life outside the Earth in the solar system?

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How to watch the launch of Europe's JUICE mission to Jupiter on April 14

Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission is set to launch for its 8-year cruise to the solar system's largest planet on Friday at 8:14 EDT (1214 GMT) and you can watch it live via Space.com.

Space

European space mission seeks out new life on Jupiter's icy moons

Move over Mars. The search for extra-terrestrial life in our solar system is this week fixed squarely on Jupiter as the European Space Agency (ESA) gets set to send its Juice spacecraft on an ambitious mission to inspect the frozen oceans of three of the planet’s moons.

Radio France Internationale

Europe's JUICE Jupiter mission launches April 13. Here's what it will teach us

The JUICE mission will begin its trek to the gas giant Jupiter on Thursday, April 13. When will it arrive, and what will it discover about the solar system's largest planet and its icy ocean moons?

Space

What Lies Beneath the Ice of Jupiter's Moons? Two Missions Will Investigate

Europe's JUICE and NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will soon launch to Jupiter to study its icy and possibly habitable moons.

Inverse

Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is unlikely to find life. Here's why.

What will Europe's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) tell us about the presence of life in the vicinity of the solar system's largest planet?

Space

Jupiter's moons hide giant subsurface oceans – two upcoming missions are sending spacecraft to see if these moons could support life

On April 13, 2023, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch a rocket carrying a spacecraft destined for Jupiter. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – or JUICE – will spend at least three years on Jupiter’s moons after it arrives in 2031. In October 2024, NASA is also planning…

The Conversation

Ready for launch: the mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s icy moons

The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto

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ESA's Jupiter mission JUICE is not 'strong enough' to orbit potentially life-harboring Europa. Here's why

Europe's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is setting out for an ambitious tour of Jupiter's moons. But it will only take a brief glimpse of the potentially life-harboring Europa. Here's why.

Wales Online

ESA gearing up for mission to discover if Jupiter's moons can support life

Six-tonne probe named Juice to set out on 6.6 billion kilometre journey to the solar system’s biggest planet

Space

Europe's JUICE mission will explore the Jupiter ocean moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede. Here's why they're so weird

The icy Jupiter moons Callisto, Europa and Ganymede all likely host hidden global oceans, but that's not the only reason they stand out.

Inverse

50 Years Ago, NASA Sent an Ambitious Mission to Saturn — and To Interstellar Horizons

The Pioneer 11 probe would serve as a metaphorical blueprint for the Voyager missions.

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Ingredients for life discovered in Perseus molecular cloud in space 1,000 light-years from Earth

Astronomers have discovered precursors for life and other complex molecules in a region of star and planet formation close to the solar system, the Perseus Molecular Cloud.

Space

This map of volcanoes on Venus is best we've ever made (image)

Scientists have built the most detailed map of the distribution of volcanoes on Venus, which is also the most complete volcano map of all planets in the solar system.

LiveScience

How long will it take for humans to colonize another planet?

There's a huge difference between sending humans to Mars and colonizing worlds outside our solar system.

Space

April delights: Mercury, Venus and the Pleiades put on a sky show this month

From now through mid-April, Venus will help you to identify the normally hard-to-find planet Mercury. And along the way, Venus will have a striking interaction with the Pleiades star cluster.

LiveScience

Rare red asteroids around Neptune could reveal the secrets of the early solar system

Scientists have observed that some of Neptune's Trojan asteroids are deep red, possibly revealing what asteroids may have been like in the early days of the solar system.

Space

Surprise! Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere

Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere, a phenomenon never seen in the solar system before, a new study suggests.

Space

See Venus meet up with Uranus in the sky tonight (March 31)

The solar system's hottest planet (Venus) and its coldest one (Uranus) will be in conjunction tonight (March 31), offering a rare opportunity for skywatchers.

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