NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter’s ocean moon is not looking for life, but will see if life could be possible there. It’s a step that could help the bigger hunt beyond our solar system. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy carrying the largest satellite ever built for NASA’s planetary science missions is set to lift off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 12:05 p.

A massive NASA mission to explore if one of Jupiter’s moons could support life launched Monday morning from Florida.

Ocean worlds like Europa are not only unique because they might be habitable, but they might be habitable today,” NASA’s Gina DiBraccio said on the eve

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NASA just launched a spacecraft the size of a basketball court towards Jupiter's moon Europa. Here's what will happen over the next 10 years.

NASA has launched its Europa Clipper spacecraft, the biggest one it has ever built for a mission heading to another planet, on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian moon Europa in 2030 and spend several years collecting and sending valuable data on the moon’s potential habitability back to Earth.

NASA’s newest mission is taking an orbiter to study one of Jupiter’s moons for signs of life, and a contractor from the QCA helped with its development. The Europa Clipper launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday,

Europa Clipper will serve as the organization’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system. moon could be habitable for life as we know it. The spacecraft will carry nine instruments and a gravity experiment intended to investigate the ocean beneath Europa’s thick ice shell.

Coverage of the launch is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET and will be added to this story in the video player above. The launch window itself is set to open at 12:06 p.m. ET.