On July 9, 1979, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Jupiter. It came within 354,000 miles (570,000 ...
Io is unlike any world in the Solar System. Covered in towering volcanoes, rivers of molten lava, and constant geological ...
As NASA's Juno flew around Jupiter last week, the spacecraft snapped a photo of an object before it could make a clean getaway. That clunky, bumpy thing at the far right edge of the frame is Thebe, ...
A new study suggests Ganymede—our neighborhood's biggest moon—still has a hot, churning core cranking out its unique magnetic field. Reading time 3 minutes Jupiter, the biggest planet in our solar ...
Jupiter's moon Europa has an abnormally high reflectivity, acting like a mirror due to the features of the ice shell. This ...
If you have binoculars, you may even spot some of Jupiter’s largest moons as tiny pinpoints beside the planet NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty A waxing crescent moon and Jupiter will appear close together ...