Exploring other worlds has always been a goal that government agencies like NASA were meant for, but technological and resource limitations have always been huge obstacles. Now, the American space agency is looking to explore planets that have huge water regions in order to search for signs of alien life. After all, where there is water, there is bound to be some form of organisms.

The plan was first presented during the "Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop" that NASA recently hosted in Washington, D.C. headquarters, Phys.org reports. The workshop is supposed to be an opportunity to connect with the international community where the agency will present its long-term plans and where experts will make their proposals.

Among the presentations include the two proposals to explore the oceans of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons and others. Unfortunately for aspiring astronauts, NASA will not likely be sending actual ships to these moons anytime soon. For the initial missions, probes will be sent to collect data and see exactly what the agency would be dealing with.

The Europa mission was discussed during the presentation with the title "Exploration Pathways for Europa after initial In-Situ Analyses for Biosignatures." During the presentation, data about the moon was shared in order to explain why the scientists believe this is even achievable, Futurism reports. According to Deputy Chief Scientist for solar system Exploration Kevin Peter Hand, if evidence of life is found on Europa, visiting the moon is going to be a priority for NASA.

“Were biosignatures to be found in the surface material, direct access to, and exploration of, Europa’s ocean and liquid water environments would be a high priority goal for the astrobiological investigation of our solar system,” Hand explained. “Europa’s ocean would harbor the potential for the study of an extant ecosystem, likely representing a second, independent origin of life in our own solar system.”