One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Even though Europa, the fourth-largest of Jupiter's 95 officially ... soaring over a different location during each flyby to scan nearly the entire moon. Clipper will circle Jupiter every 21 ...

NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean ... 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Jupiter, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2024, during ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

If you need a little help tracking down the star's location ... and personal with the icy Galilean moon Europa that may be hiding an ocean under its crust. Jupiter is named for the Roman king ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...

The Europa Clipper launched to investigate subsurface oceans on Jupiter's moon Europa, promising new discoveries by 2030. On December 7, Earth will align between the Sun and Jupiter, creating a ...