Earth is, simply put, a ball of confusion these days for most of us—from its pandemics to its politics and everything in ...

The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody seen these ones already? Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

It cruised on over to Io to a remarkable closeness: 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) of the moon ... of Jupiter’s polar cyclones and water abundance continues as NASA solves the puzzle of ...

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

The team had previously used the telescope to discover 62 more Saturnian moons, a discovery ratified in 2023 that vaulted the planet past Jupiter’s moon tally. Ashton said that given the understanding ...