Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Two icy moons of Jupiter, though neighboring and of similar size, exhibit radically different internal structures. A new ...

Life outside the Earth is one of the biggest "what if" in history, but NASA is trying to put a end to the discussion - or add ...

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

NASA have found something new moving in our Solar System. Even thought it's not water, still a phenomenon worth of time ...

Space crash: New research suggests huge asteroid shifted Jupiter's moon Ganymede on its axis An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that struck Earth and led to the extinction of the dinosaurs ...

Ganymede is a tidally locked moon, which means it always shows the same face to Jupiter—and, as a result of the impact, the crater is permanently shielded from Jupiter’s view.

Ganymede will be studied more closely still in 2034, when the European Space Agency’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) spacecraft, launched in 2023, arrives at the moon and goes into orbit ...

After a few orbits of Ganymede, particles from Jupiter's magnetosphere can either return to it or impact the moon's surface. This new analysis of old Galileo data informs us about what the JUICE ...

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 ...

While Ganymede hasn’t yet been observed spewing plumes of water vapor like Saturn’s moon Enceladus, Jupiter’s largest moon is most likely hiding an enormous saltwater ocean.