Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Data from NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed unexpected variations in electron energies within the Alfvén wing connecting Jupiter and its moon Io. These electrons ...

That treat, a photo of the Jupiter moon Ganymede snapped on July 20, comes compliments of Juno's JIRAM, or Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper. Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, captured by the Juno probe just ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

Article continues below The Moon then made a close encounter with Jupiter last night (March 5), sitting close together in the evening sky, just to the right of the constellation Orion, famous for ...

The European Space Agency launched its Juice mission to explore the potential for life on Jupiter’s moons. WSJ’s Aylin Woodward explains what will happen on the eight-year journey and what ...

NASA scientists have confirmed, for the first time, the existence of water above the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. The study published in the journal Nature Astronomy show that they ...