The moon was last observed up close by NASA’s Galileo mission, which studied it in the late 1990s. NASA’s Juno is currently ...

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...

Tidal friction from massive Jupiter, and some from its fellow moon Europa, is dissipated as orbital and heat energy in Io. In ...

In an eccentric twist, the hot Jupiter spotted in 2005 was found to be in an orbit just over six days long. The recently ...

Europa was first discovered in 1610 by Florentine astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei. Using a homemade ...

The images of the new volcano were taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft and its JunoCam as it made a flyby of Io — the solar ...

NASA's Juno mission reveals a massive new volcano on Jupiter's moon Io, showcasing its dynamic volcanic activity.

Only two spacecraft have orbited Jupiter: the Galileo probe, which studied the gas giant between 1995 and 2003, and Juno, which has been circling the planet since 2016. The Galileo mission found ...

Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa—their unique features, and their potential to reveal extraterrestrial life.

Callisto will have 21 flybys, Ganymede 12, and Europa two. Before now, only two spacecraft have orbited Jupiter: Galileo and ...

This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... Planetary scientists had not seen an image of the moon since 2000 when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft revealed impact craters ...

NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials gave a sneak peek into the upcoming Europa Clipper mission, the first NASA ...