There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, ...

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

Even with that distinction, the team was shocked by the scale of Juno's latest discovery, which appears to be the most ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter reflects a lot of the Sun’s light even though it is more than five times ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

Now, using his trusty setup, the talented photographer has captured a shot of Jupiter and its fourth-largest moon lo. Despite horrendous weather across the UK last week, on Friday 10 January ...

The moon and Jupiter — the solar system's largest planet — will remain visible into the early morning of Jan. 11, until they sink below the western horizon around 3:47 a.m. EST (0847 GMT).

while the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, is around 1/28 the size of its parent planet, Jupiter. That means that the prevailing theory of the formation of the Pluto and Charon system ...

a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest ... NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball Oct. 9, 2024 ...