Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered Europa in 1610. But it wasn't until Galileo, the NASA spacecraft, reached the Jupiter ... of the moon's icy surface. For instance, pictures of the ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

In January 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted what he thought were four small stars tagging along with Jupiter. These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons ...

Four centuries ago, Johannes Kepler established three laws of planetary motion that accurately describe how planets in the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

Jupiter's dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal. The solar system's largest planet displays striking ...

The images also showed faint rings around Jupiter and two of its smaller moons, Amalthea and Adrastea. Nichols and his fellow researchers plan to continue studying this phenomenon using both ...

Stunning new images of Jupiter show its vast swirling clouds in striking detail. NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed its 72nd close flyby of the planet on 7 May, coming within thousands of ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Io has since become one of the most fascinating objects in planetary science. Orbiting just 350,000 km above Jupiter ... power plant on the moon — potentially ...