Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

The smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...

9, 2024 — A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy ... an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the ...

The planet's fast spin on its axis means that one ... now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter itself.

The spacecraft is currently on its way to orbit Jupiter and investigate the planet's three ocean-bearing icy moons—Ganymede, Callisto and Europa—with a suite of remote sensing, geophysical and ...

If you want vast ocean views, Jupiter’s biggest moon Ganymede is the place to be. The moon is larger than Mercury and would be classed as a planet if it were orbiting the Sun rather than Jupiter.