ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that was launched in 2023 will take about 8 years to arrive at the jovian system ...

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 ...

Can you see Jupiter’s moons with the naked eye? On the night of Sept. 25-26, your chances of seeing them are pretty much as good as they get. And whether you see them or not, in just trying you will ...

Twelve new Jovian moons were discovered, increasing the total known count to 79. These discoveries were a serendipitous outcome of a separate Planet Nine search. The research utilized the Blanco ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and compressed. Heat generated by these contortions has melted pockets of the moon's ...

Through a vast ocean, Jupiter's moon Europa is an exciting target for research in the search for life. Two space probes are ...

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 ...

What’s in a name? When it comes to moons, quite a lot. That’s what many participants probably realized earlier this year when we asked them to tweet us suggestions to help name five of the recently ...