VISITORS to the Moon could race across the planet’s surface in an “extreme” car dropped there by Elon Musk. That’s the vision of a Nasa-backed company that is working on a ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

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February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

He is killed by a fellow prisoner in 1994. 1559: Coronation of Elizabeth I of England. 1610: Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter. 1794: US President George Washington ...

They are not to scale but are in their relative positions. Credit: NASA/JPL Galileo Galilei’s telescopic discovery of Jupiter’s four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric ...

And yet, this was the case with Galileo’s discovery of Jovian satellites, which took shape from January 7, 1610. Astronomical changes were brewing at the end of 1609. With the telescope having ...

The volcanic world of Jupiter's moon Io can be seen in extraordinary detail in new images beamed from NASA’s Juno orbiter ...