In the end, the Galileo spacecraft will get a taste of Jupiter before taking a final plunge into the planet's crushing atmosphere, ending the mission on Sunday, Sept. 21. The team expects the ...

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.

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

The first astronomer to discover moons around Jupiter was Galileo, back in the year 1610, but astronomers are still finding more and more moons around this gas giant.

THE spacecraft Galileo today made a close encounter with the largest of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede, marking the beginning of a grand tour of the giant planet. Galileo made its first fly-by of ...

On January 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted three points of light that he later confirmed to be Jupiter’s moons. A.S.Ganesh takes a look at a discovery that led to the ...

When Nasa's Juno probe approached Jupiter it caught sight of its four big moons - Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. When Galileo Galilei's discovered these moons in 1610, it marked the birth of ...

Galileo, which orbited Jupiter between 1995 and 2003, flew close to Europa several times, offering humanity its first detailed glimpses of the moon's surface and its secrets.