Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, to determine if it harbors conditions suitable to support life. NASA's Europa Clipper is set to launch on Oct.

Europa Clipper mission will travel 1.8 billion miles to explore Europa. It will investigate the possibility of life beneath the moon.

This May, engineers working on NASA's Europa Clipper discovered a problem with the spacecraft and had to scramble to get it for launch.

Jupiter’s moon Europa shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust. In fact, it could have all the ingredients needed for life. In October, we set sail to take a closer look – here's how we'll do it. pic.twitter.com/jy7m6NlYiD

NASA's Europa Clipper probe will lift off and embark on a long-awaited mission to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which scientists think is one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth.

NASA is set to go on a mission to explore one of the most promising places within our solar system that could potentially harbor life. But it's not a planet - it's actually one of Jupiter's 95 moons.

NASA convinced an American author we’ll find life on another planet — in next 25 years - Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers says scientists are ‘in striking distance’ of finding life on an exoplanet