NASA Europa Clipper mission is on its way to Europa, but it has some stops to make before it investigates the habitability of the icy ocean moon of Jupiter, including a Mars trip and a brief return to ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon ...

Astronomers have discovered new auroras over Jupiter's four largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, observable at visible wavelengths. The new auroras reveal in greater detail the ...

The Europa Clipper sports the largest solar arrays ever flown on a planetary probe: Each wing measures about 46.5 ft. long and 13.5 ft. wide. The deployment mechanism was tested at Kennedy Space ...

While I'm no geologist, I have a sense that understanding the cryovolcanism of the outer solar system - including the Jovian moons - will help us much, much better understand the "geo"logical ...

A new study points to why, and how, Io became the most volcanic body in the solar system. Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are ...

Nearly half a billion miles from Earth, a world may be stirring. Our planet is the only place in the solar system—and indeed the universe—where we know that life exists. But if the basic sciences of ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. The largest planet in the Solar ...

Jupiter was always known as the largest planet in the solar system. But a recent discovery would also make it the planet with the highest number of moons at 92. According to a recent report from Sky ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission (JUICE) launched on Friday to boldly go where few spacecrafts have gone before: Jupiter. As the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter has more than 60 ...

United Nations weapon inspectors have found way more than they bargained for during a routine inspection. That may sound like the beginning of a “torn from headlines” plot from your average episode of ...

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