12:41, Tue, Oct 1, 2024 | UPDATED: Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, is thought to be a good candidate for primitive life (Image: GETTY) His new series will explore the latest missions in space, including NASA’s Europa Clipper, which is set to investigate whether Jupiter’s icy moon Europa could harbour life. While Prof Cox expects any life discovered there to be simple, such explorations are, in his view, a crucial part of mankind’s responsibility to explore the universe. Speaking to Express.co.uk five years ago at the launch of The Planets, his spectacular BBC series focusing on the seven other fully fledged planets in the solar system apart from Earth, Prof Cox said of Mars: "It is actually the only place we can go beyond Earth. "In any plausible scenario, there is nowhere else that humans can go to begin their step outwards from a planet other than Mars, other than the Moon. A NASA illustration shows the path the Europa Clipper will take (Image: NASA)