Most of us know four moons of Jupiter, called the Galilean moons because they were first discovered by Galileo in 1610. Named for figures closely associated with Jupiter from Greek mythology ...
A newly-launched space mission to Jupiter will study three of its icy moons' subsurface water for any sign of life. In early 1610, using his refracting telescope, Italian astronomer and physicist ...
Jupiter briefly stole the limelight ... Cassini captured five of Saturn's moons in 2011. A new study puts the latest moon count at 145. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute ...
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has two monitoring cameras (Juice Monitoring Cameras, JMC) to provide snapshots with different fields of view. The images are provided in 1024 x 1024 ...
It’s been six weeks since Europe’s JUICE mission launched towards the Jovian system, and the spacecraft is now all suited-up, with its instruments ready to explore the potential habitability of ...
With so many moons — at last count 95 — astronomers consider Jupiter a mini solar system of its own, with missions like Juice long overdue. “This is a mission that is answering questions of science ...
It's the beginning of the summer in some people's minds, and so many of us will be holding up the Pride flag to show our solidarity because love is love, and on this day, during the interestingly ...
Friday, June 9 The Moon continues to wane as it moves along the ecliptic, passing 3° south of Saturn at 4 P.M. EDT. The pair ...
Enceladus is one of few locations in our solar system with liquid water, along with Earth and Jupiter's moon Europa, making it a target of interest for astrobiologists. Its global reservoir of ...
We are on the cusp of learning far more about the projected icy situation of the moon's permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. Multiple nations are eying the moon's south pole with research teams ...
As early as the late 1600s, though, scientist Ole Roemer was able to measure the speed of light (usually referred to as c) by using observations of Jupiter's moons, according to Britannica. Around the ...
