Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Io has since become one of the most fascinating objects in planetary science. Orbiting just ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...

Europa Clipper tested its infrared camera during a Mars flyby, preparing for its 2030 mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

Io is an infamous world teeming with violent volcanoes spewing particles that can escape the moon's gravity and sneak into Jupiter's orbit. As Jupiter captures all of the charged particles ...

As these volcanoes spew matter out into space, they are thrown with enough force to escape the moon’s gravity and end up pulled into Jupiter’s orbit. When these particles are pulled in and ...

With the Mars flyby complete, Clipper's next gravity assist will come from Earth in 2026. The spacecraft is expected to enter Jupiter orbit in April 2030, after which it will begin a series of 49 ...

"This enhanced gravity map is a critical foundation for ... in the solar system such as Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Ganymede, two worlds of interest in the search for potential ...