Jupiter will soon end its brilliant year-long showing on consecutive evenings with a rendezvous with an exceedingly thin and very young crescent moon. Indeed, for the first opportunity on Tuesday ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

ONE HOUR AFTER SUNSET AROUND 8 P.M. LOOK FOR JUPITER TO BE PRETTY CLOSE TO THE The moon and Jupiter will meet Wednesday night in the constellation Aries.Look west just after sunset, which is ...

The Jovian system is teeming with moons, big and small. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter, the largest planet in our ...

Early in the morning on Wednesday, May 17, gas giant Jupiter and its four bright Galilean moons will pass behind a very thin crescent moon. The moon and Jupiter will be quite a sight in the early ...

Galileo sets his telescopic sights on Jupiter This line engraving of Galileo depicts the astronomer alongside a drawing that shows Earth’s orbit around the Sun, as well as the Moon’s orbit ...

“We have been surveying for new moons around Jupiter serendipitously while our main survey is looking for planets in the outer solar system beyond Pluto,” Sheppard said. The team could tell ...

There's a new moon king in our solar system: 12 new moons were discovered around Jupiter, which makes it the planet with the most moons. Jupiter is already the biggest planet in our solar system.

Jupiter now has a total of 92 moons, more than any other planet in the solar system. Getty Images/iStockphoto Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a ...

Jupiter and its largest satellites recently performed a rare dance. Three of the planet's enormous moons — Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — all paraded across Jupiter's swirling surface at ...

More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered the first of Jupiter's moons, astronomers have found a dozen more — including one they've dubbed "oddball" — orbiting the planet.

Jupiter’s four largest moons were discovered by Galileo in 1610 and named after mythological lovers of Zeus. NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on July 4. Callisto Large craters are ...