The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

The spacecraft will pass just 884 kilometers above the Red Planet in a pivotal step in the spacecraft's journey to the Jupiter system, where it aims to explore the icy moon Europa. The manoeuvre will ...

The small, rocky body is constantly being stretched and compressed by Jupiter’s huge gravitational force, keeping the moon ‘malleable’ like bread dough. Like Europa, the enormous pressure ...

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Gill, CC BY 2.0. Callisto, one of Jupiter’s largest moons ... With better statistical tools and computer models, they studied the moon’s ionosphere and interior structure.

On February 20, Mercury in Pisces forms a square with Jupiter in Gemini, setting the stage for a cosmic tug-of-war. On February 20, Mercury in Pisces forms a square with Jupiter in Gemini ...

New evidence from an old NASA mission supports the theory that Jupiter's moon Callisto is in fact an ocean world. Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely has a ...

You’ve been spinning a narrative about your work, questioning its significance, downplaying its impact, convincing yourself that maybe it doesn’t matter as much as you’d hoped. But is that ...

reacts inductively to Jupiter’s (right) time-varying magnetic field. New research suggests that this reaction, and its results, are indicative of the moon hosting a subsurface salty ocean.