Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

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 ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

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 ...

For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and astronomy advanced, more and more, smaller and smaller bodies, until Big J ...

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.

With a whopping 274 moons now known to exist in its orbit, Saturn beats Jupiter's moon count by a mile—or, some might say, a light-year. Behind the discovery are researchers from the United ...

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 ...

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 ...