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The Juice spacecraft took off this morning onboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the European Space Agency’s launch pad in French Guiana.

After taking off from Earth, the Jupiter space probe will go to explore Jupiter's three icy moons: Europa (Europa), Ganymede (Ganymede) and Callisto (Callisto). The Juice Probe will study the icy shells and chemical compounds on the surfaces of these moons of Jupiter. It will also probe Jupiter's atmosphere and magnetic field to investigate whether…

The mission seeks to learn more about Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, icy moons thought to have more water than all of Earth's oceans.

Launch of ESA's advanced spacecraft is scheduled for Thursday, April 13 at 8:15 a.m. ET.

Europe's JUICE probe will investigate three of Jupiter's largest ice moons for signs of potential habitability.

From trips to Venus and Jupiter to investigations of asteroids and methane-soaked moons, the future of space exploration looks incredibly bright.

The new technique enhances NASA JPL's Center for Near Earth Object Studies' ability to analyze the impact danger of asteroids approaching our planet.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world's first planetary defense test mission, is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning.