There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

NASA’s Juno probe has discovered a massive volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io. The hot spot emits 80 trillion watts of ...

As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter reflects a lot of the Sun’s light even though it is more than five times ...

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. The gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and ...

NASA's $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft has been studying Jupiter and its moons since 2016. The mission, which had been extended, will finally end in September 2025 as the spacecraft swirls into the ...

Using his celestial observations, including the discovery of Jupiter’s satellites, Galileo came up with a book titled Siderius Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) in March 1610. In this work ...

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped a stunning image of a cloud on Jupiter shaped like a dolphin, proving that even science has an ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus ... which is roughly a quarter the diameter of Earth—and its surface is covered by a thick ice shell estimated to be about 3 to ...

Jupiter on Saturday will shine at its brightest for the year, as Earth’s orbit swings our planet between Jupiter ... If conditions are clear, anyone with a pair of binoculars or a telescope may even ...