NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

New research suggests Pluto may have had a “kiss” with its largest moon billions of years ... located in the Kuiper Belt at the edge of our solar system, collided without annihilating one ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

Charon, its biggest of five moons, was discovered in 1978 by the ... lose a lot of material to the solar system, or become fluid blobs. Researchers now wonder if other objects in this brutally ...

For comparison, our moon is just a quarter of the size of Earth, while the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, is around 1/28 the size of its parent planet, Jupiter. That means that the ...

considered the ninth planet in our solar system until it was reclassified to dwarf planet status in 2006, is thought to have undergone an impact that broke off the largest of its five moons ...

Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system and the only one that has a significant atmosphere. Southwest Research Institute partnered with the Carnegie Institution for Science to perform ...

Since completing its primary science objectives in orbit of Jupiter, Juno has been conducting flybys of the Jovian moons Io, ...

where thousands of icy remnants left over from the formation of the solar system linger. Eight of the 10 largest Kuiper Belt Objects have large moons like Charon, Denton said, which means that ...