Europa Clipper is not designed to detect life itself, and the mission is unlikely to find direct evidence of living organisms. But by studying the moon’s chemical composition, geologic activity ...

Scientists long urged NASA to search for signs of life near Jupiter. Now it’s happening An illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft flying near the icy moon, with Jupiter in the ...

The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has an environment that could support life. The ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

NASA is gearing up to search for signs of life on Jupiter’s frozen moon with Europa Clipper, the largest spacecraft it has ever developed for a planetary mission.

To ensure that the goal of returning Mars samples in the 2030s remains on track, NASA in April 2024 sought other options to the roughly $11 billion plan the agency had been pursuing.

NASA announces way forward on Mars rock plan NASA has announced it is moving forward with ... collection of geologic treasures that lab scientists could search for signs of ancient microbial life.

The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has an environment that could support life.

These marks, called slope streaks and recurring slope lineae (RSLs), have often been considered possible signs of water on Mars. That raised hopes that the Red Planet could support life or may ...

Scientists working with NASA’s Perseverance rover state emphatically that they are not claiming to have discovered life on Mars.. But many would regard a rock that the rover just finished ...

Using observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the researchers were able to find possible hints of molecules and gases that, on Earth, are signs of life.

Science | October 14, 2024. NASA Launches Europa Clipper to Search for Signs of Life on Jupiter’s Moon. The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of ...