NASA has delayed the return of Crew-8 from the International Space Station and the launch of Europa Clipper this week due to Hurricane Milton. The hurricane, currently making its way through the Gulf of Mexico,

In the coming weeks, NASA's Europa Clipper will take off on a long journey to Jupiter's moon Europa. The icy moon could potentially host alien life — and there's only one way to find out.

SpaceX returned to flight with its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, sending up the Hera probe for the European Space Agency on its way to a pair of asteroids, but SpaceX and NASA have called off plans to launch the Falcon Heavy later this week on NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon because of the approaching Hurricane Milton.

NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the launch attempt of the agency Europa Clipper mission due to anticipated hurricane conditions in the area NASA said on Monday

The Europa Clipper had been scheduled to launch Thursday from Florida, beginning its six-year journey to the Jupiter moon to search for signs of life.

NASA and SpaceX have postponed the launch of the Europa Clipper mission due to Hurricane Milton threatening Florida's Space Coast with high winds and heavy rain. The spacecraft has been secured at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A,

NASA is poised to launch Europa Clipper, a $5.2 billion mission to Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, as early as October 10. The spacecraft will blast off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It will study Europa, a possible home for extraterrestrial life, through a series of flybys after reaching Jupiter in 2030.

Nasa is doing just that: launching a spacecraft on October 10 to Europa, a moon of Jupiter holding twice the water of all Earth’s oceans combined. Europa’s ocean is between 60 and 150 kilometres deep and is hidden beneath an outer shell of ice that’s 15 to 25 kilometres thick.