The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

A massive collision billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon ... Hirata’s team compared this process with an event on Pluto, where a large ...

but it was nothing compared to a bigger impact that occurred roughly four billion years earlier, between an incoming rock and Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. That’s the conclusion of a new study in ...

but it was nothing compared to a bigger impact that occurred roughly four billion years earlier, between an incoming rock and Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. That’s the conclusion of a new study in ...

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Three of Jupiter’s moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are home ... Callisto appears somewhat inert compared to the others, but serves as a valuable time capsule of an ancient past ...

Ganymede is a tidally locked moon, which means it always shows the same face to Jupiter—and, as a result of the impact, the crater is permanently shielded from Jupiter’s view.

At the end of its mission, the probe is scheduled to intentionally slam into Jupiter’s rocky moon Ganymede. In 2015, Bill Nye was on Marine One with President Obama.

While you’re trained on Jupiter for its conjunction with Mars, watch a triple event as the shadows of Io and Europa, as well as Io itself, cross the planet’s disk. Not shown are Ganymede to ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Ganymede, Io and Callisto. What type of life might Europa harbor? Besides water ...

A massive collision billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon. Naoyuki Hirata at Kobe University, Japan, and his colleagues studied Ganymede's ...