New images returned by NASA spacecraft Juno show Amalthea, a tiny moon with a radius of just 52 miles (84 kilometers). It's ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the elusive fifth moon of Jupiter transiting the giant planet's Great Red Spot, giving ...

Images acquired during the Galileo mission revealed that the moon is very irregularly shaped and has 'x-y-z axis lengths' of 131 by 73 by 67 kilometres. It always points its long axis at Jupiter and ...

"Io represented a big mystery because its surface doesn't hold a record of its history the way that the surfaces of less active moons do." The solar system's most volcanic body, the Jupiter moon ...

Ganymede’s shadow on Jupiter. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSSImage processing by Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY (main image)Image processing by Brian Swift © CC BY ...

The great planetary instability, which saw Jupiter and the other gas giants wander chaotically through the solar system, ...

NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew ... based on data—and see the rest of the top 100 67-year-old who left the U.S. for Mexico: I'm ...

These moons are worlds unto themselves. Some, like Europa or Enceladus, have spectacular and perhaps even habitable liquid water oceans. And then there’s Jupiter’s moon, Io. Io is the most ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

Scientists on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have unveiled ... car-sized drone to Saturn's largest moon to explore potential habitability 'Reducing mass by 67%': ISRO successfully develops ...

Jupiter and its moons are a diverse and dynamic subdivision of our solar system’s neighborhood, one that NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been visiting since 2016. Besides hosting the system’s ...