One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

Using this telescope, Galileo peered up towards the constellation Orion on January 7, 1610. His target was the planet Jupiter – an object brighter than the surrounding stars. To his surprise ...

In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission performed magnetic induction ... As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of ...

Volcanoes rage on Io's surface, earning it the title ... oddball paths around the giant world. Since Galileo first laid telescope-enhanced eyes on Jupiter, scientists have continued to study ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

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Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...

front of Jupiter's Great Red Spot ... the moon several times starting in 1996. Galileo’s work revealed impact craters and valleys on the moon’s surface. The future isn’t so rosy for the ...

Scientists think there’s an ocean of magma under its rocky surface. Io, which orbits Jupiter every 42 hours ... making it the closest pass since NASA’s Galileo probe imaged the volcanic ...