Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up. If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side ...

But in the grand scheme of the solar system, Earth's Moon isn't as big as you might think. Oberon is Uranus’s second-largest ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It's fair to say that of all the moons, it’s Io—the most volcanic world in the solar system—that inspired the most elaborate movement. “It’s constantly ...

Four billion years ago, Ganymede literally got knocked sideways. A giant asteroid slammed into Jupiter’s largest moon, ...

Your guide to the Giant Red Spot, those large ocean-bearing moons and the conditions which could support life on the planet ...

When conducting measurements, GALA sends short laser pulses down to the surface of the icy moon currently under investigation, Europa, Ganymede or Callisto. At the surface, the pulses are reflected ...

They should make a lovely pairing, with a pair of binoculars placed on Jupiter also revealing its four “Galilean” moons Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. Venus is still blazing away in the ...

Organic compounds on Ganymede and Callisto? In addition to water ice, MAJIS will also identify non-ice compounds in the surface ice and map their distribution on the surface of Ganymede. The presence ...