NASA’s Solar System Exploration website notes these names, rooted in Latin, persisted due to historical inertia despite varied ancient names.

In 1920, however, a farmer in the African nation of Namibia, then part of British-controlled South Africa, made an ...

NASA's Juno mission finds a massive lava lake in Jupiter, offering new insights into volcanic activity beyond Earth and the ...

NASA’s astrobiology ambitions are at risk of collapsing under the White House’s proposed budget. But your voice can make a difference ...

Now, thanks to the efforts of the U.S. space agency's Juno probe, Jupiter's secrets are being ... which was first discovered by the ancient astronomer Galileo in 1610, is named for a mythological ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

NASA's Europa Clipper probe is finally on its way to the icy ocean moon of Jupiter, but it's going to ... Clipper's predecessors — Voyager 2, Galileo, and Juno, NASA spacecraft that performed ...

That is a moon of Jupiter. And as NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce ... longing to get a close-up look at Europa ever since NASA's Galileo probe flew by it in the 1990s. Amanda Hendrix remembers that ...

The next probe to reach Jupiter's icy moon was NASA's Galileo probe in the 1990s, which found it was highly likely that the moon was home to an ocean. This time, the Europa Clipper carries a host ...