Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

JunoCam’s sequence of images of the NASA Juno mission's encounter with Jupiter's moon, io, on 3 February 2024. Comparison of Galileo and JunoCam data showing emergence of new volcano on Jupiter ...

And yet, this was the case with Galileo’s discovery of Jovian satellites ... from Jupiter. While the numeral convention surely didn’t stand the test of time, these Jovian moons are still ...

The Moon and Jupiter will meet in the southwest sky at around 9.00pm GMT, where Jupiter will be shining bright to the left of the Moon. At the same time tomorrow evening (February 6), the pair will ...

which has been circling Jupiter in a highly elliptical, or stretched, orbit since 2016. Juno passes by Io once every few months and fixes its gaze on the volcanic satellite so scientists can learn ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to Jupiter's icy moon Europa, using star trackers to navigate and ensure a smooth journey to its 2030 destination.

Mars will appear to make an ultraclose approach to the moon on Sunday, after Jupiter had a turn earlier this week. Here's how to get the best view of the rare conjunction.

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

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