This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures several storms in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere (Figure A). Titanic blasts created by the impacts of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments left Jupiter with ...

Four billion years ago, Ganymede literally got knocked sideways. A giant asteroid slammed into Jupiter’s largest moon, ...

Ganymede is an enormous moon, larger than any other we’ve found, including our own, and may one day be the centerpiece of wider human settlements around Jupiter.

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

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

Ganymede is far to Jupiter’s east ... Tonight, the evening sky holds a different conjunction, as the Moon passes 0.8° north of Mars at 3 P.M. EST and sits near the magnitude 4.1 star Upsilon ...

shifts from half-full to a crescent and reaches peak brightness just after February’s full moon. Jupiter: Second brightest in the east, its four moons—Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io—are ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...