Jupiter’s moon Io (left side of image) is connected to Jupiter (right side of image) through the planet’s magnetic field. Juno’s close flyby of Io revealed electrons with varying properties ...
Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than expected if a magma ocean were present. Instead, Io’s mantle appears mostly ...
Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in ... researchers report in the February Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. These lakes are far larger than their analogs on Earth ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.
If you find Jupiter ... are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet. Discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, Io, Callisto, Europa and ...