Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 kilometres. However, as of April 2023, we know it is also home to 91 additional small satellites.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Related: Watch this Jupiter moon lander handle harsh terrain it may ... one of the things that the simulation can model is battery power: how much power is consumed by the lander performing ...

Liftoff! NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with ...

The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody seen these ones already? Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these ...

If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in the southwestern sky. All three bodies will be ...

(CNN) --The Galileo spacecraft resumed normal operations on Friday, the day after it unexpectedly shut down while darting dangerously close to Jupiter and its most volatile moon. The aging robot ...

The European Space Agency’s mission to Jupiter and its moons has been postponed due to adverse weather conditions. The six-tonne probe, named Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer), was due to head ...