And after follow-up observations, they've confirmed that Jupiter has even more moons than we thought. And these new moons point to a violent and destructive past. Following is a transcript of the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, ...

About the same diameter as Earth’s moon, the innermost of Jupiter’s four giant moons is covered in volcanoes, some emitting sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles into space. It’s been imaged by ...

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

The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus. The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up ...

Juice, launched in 2023, will travel to Jupiter over eight years. Upon arrival, it will spend another three years researching ...

The main body - about the size of a camper ... The mission ends in 2034 with a planned crash into Ganymede - Jupiter's biggest moon and the solar system’s too. There's more radiation around ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Saturn is perhaps the best-known example, swathed by eight main rings made ... Saturn's "Death Star" moon Mimas, these moon rings were stable — particularly Jupiter’s Iapetus.

“Ganymede is our main target for this mission and we will ... Will JUICE just study Jupiter’s moons? JUICE will also study the environment around Jupiter. “We’re going to be spending ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...