There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

Sitting neatly in a row, dressed in blue and grey uniforms and blazers, the students waited patiently in a field as dusk gave ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

these moon rings were stable — particularly Jupiter’s Iapetus. Even Earth's moon had a 95% chance of supporting a stable ring system in the simulations. "[W]e did not anticipate that moons in ...

From the data, they team were able to observe that small "shepherd moons" orbiting near Jupiter's rings also interact with the planet's radiation environment, much like Europa. Specifically ...

and the white ring around Pillan Patera, to the right of Pele. Io is volcanic because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter and three of its other largest moons—Europa, Ganymede and Callisto ...

Astrophysicist Mario Sucerquia’s team simulated ring behavior on various moons, finding that many, including Earth’s moon and Jupiter’s Iapetus, could maintain stable rings for over a ...

The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up with the gas giant in the constellation Taurus. The moon will pass closely by Jupiter this evening (Jan. 10), meeting up ...

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune ... you can spot Saturn’s moons and rings through a pair of skywatching binoculars or a telescope. Venus and Saturn rise shortly before 10:30 am local time ...