Liftoff! NASA's Europa Clipper Sails Toward Ocean Moon of Jupiter Oct. 14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

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

The data used to create the image is from a Hubble Space Telescope project to capture and map Jupiter's superstorm system.

They are more commonly referred to as the Galilean moons of Jupiter owing to the fact that they were discovered by Galileo. The four Galilean moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are ...

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

Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA's Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were photographed by Voyager 1 and assembled into this collage. They are not to scale but are in their relative positions.

Juno’s close passes have also allowed scientists to map Io’s magnetic field ... in September 2025 will protect Jupiter’s other, possibly life-sustaining moons, notably Europa.