The finding comes ahead of the European Space Agency’s planned mission to Jupiter, scheduled to launch next year, which aims to determine if Ganymede is habitable. Astronomers have found evidence of ...

Tonight, the Moon and Jupiter will have a close celestial encounter. This rare pairing can even be enjoyed with a naked eye.

New data on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, coming from a mission 20 years old, highlights the ways in which this very alien moon is surprisingly Earthlike: Auroras shine over its polar caps, it's cocooned ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission’s 40th close pass by the giant planet on Feb. 25, 2022. The large, dark shadow on the left side of the image was cast by Jupiter ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, named after the king of the ancient Roman gods. It has a diameter of about 139,822 kilometers (86,881 miles), which is more than 11 times the ...

Jupiter presents the brightest auroras in the solar system. One of the unique features of this planet, which it shares with Saturn, is also the presence of auroral emissions caused by three of its ...

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and is even wider than the planet Mercury. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The history of our solar system is a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As club sandwiches go, this undoubtedly is the biggest one in the solar system. Scientists said on Friday that Jupiter's moon Ganymede may possess ice and liquid oceans stacked ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades, less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation ...