Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears as a gray, mottled orb crossing the face of Jupiter ... [+] in this image ...

A new study by Kobe University planetologist Hirata Naoyuki has revealed that Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, experienced a massive asteroid impact approximately 4 billion years ago.

Over the following 2.5 years, the solar-powered JUICE will orbit the gas giant while swinging past Ganymede, Europa and Callisto multiple times, cataloging their surface features as well as ...

The European Space Agency’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission launched in April 2023 and will arrive in 2031, ultimately to orbit Ganymede after two flybys of Europa, 21 flybys of ...

This corresponds to a temporal resolution of slightly less than a nanosecond. While JUICE is in orbit around Ganymede at an altitude of 500 kilometres in 2034/2035, several hundred million ...

Scott Bolton: "Passing Ganymede squeezed and tightened our orbit around Jupiter" It's a fun time for the Juno mission right now. Sent primarily to investigate the origin and evolution of Jupiter ...

A massive volcano on Jupiter's moon, Io is more powerful than all of Earth's power stations combined - says American space agency, Nasa. The huge volcano was recently detected during flyby of the Juno ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a rather curious exoplanetary system that has two gas giant planets that are messing up each other’s orbit! On of them is 3.8 times the mass of Jupiter and ...