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NASA's Europa Clipper is now headed toward an ocean world beyond Earth. The large spacecraft is tucked into the payload fairing atop the Falcon Heavy rocket in this photo, taken at Kennedy Space Center the day before the mission's successful October 14 launch. Europa Clipper's interplanetary voyage will first take it to Mars, then back to Earth, and then on to Jupiter on gravity assist trajectories that will allow it to enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030. Once orbiting Jupiter, the spacecraft will fly past Europa 49 times, exploring a Jovian moon with a global subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. Posing in the background next to the floodlit rocket is Comet Tsuchinsan-ATLAS, about a day after the comet's closest approach to Earth. A current darling of evening skies, the naked-eye comet is a visitor from the distant Oort cloud. Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)

⚠Breaking space science news⚠ We have adopted two new ambitious space science missions: 🪐 EnVision: a bold mission to study Venus from its inner core to its outer atmosphere, giving important new insight into the planet's history, geological activity and climate targeted to launch in 2031. 🔗https://t.co/pbIhCvY0Yq 〰️LISA: the first scientific endeavour to detect and study gravitational waves from space targeted to launch in 2035. 🔗https://t.co/8yEjDDuQTe