When Nasa's Juno probe approached Jupiter it caught sight of its four big moons - Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. When Galileo Galilei's discovered these moons in 1610, it marked the birth of ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

JunoCam’s sequence of images of the NASA Juno mission's encounter with Jupiter's moon, io, on 3 February 2024. Comparison of Galileo and JunoCam data showing emergence of new volcano on Jupiter ...

But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Galileo flew by a small moon called Amalthea. Amalthea is small, but it’s interesting ...

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

Jupiter's largest moons, known as the Galilean moons, are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. These moons were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 and are significant for their unique ...

But let's backtrack to the very first time someone discovered new moons around Jupiter. The year was 1610 and the someone was Galileo Galilei. Thanks to his extremely detailed note-taking ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched the ”Europa Clipper” aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This spacecraft is headed for Europa, one of Jupiter’s four largest ...

Reddit users were blown away by incredible moment captured in a viral post, with one saying, "Jupiter's got that photogenic vibe." ...

Dutt’s production is especially remarkable in its moments of wonder — Galileo’s sharing with Maria Celeste of his own childlike wonder at the consequential discovery of the movement of Jupiter’s moons ...

Jupiter's four best-known moons are the Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. They are named Ganymede, ...