New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' ...

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

A new study reveals that Jupiter has massive primordial form and powerful magnetic field, offering fresh insights into how it ...

if life exists on the moon, according to a ... Solar Wave Squeezed Jupiter's Magnetic Shield to Unleash Heat Apr. 3, 2025 — A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its ...

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth.

2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in ...

The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon. Europa, like the other planets and moons in our solar system, is more than four billion years old. But a relative lack of impact craters implies that ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids ... which is between Mars and Jupiter. Today, it’s believed that Jupiter ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that the dancing lights on our solar system's largest ... can escape the moon's gravity and sneak into Jupiter's orbit.

Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter itself. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is also the only moon known to have its own magnetic field. Volcanoes rage on Io's ...