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

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

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

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

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

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

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.

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

Astronomers have discovered an enormous exoplanet in the Great Bear constellation. The newly identified planet is referred to ...

NASA will launch a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa in October 2024 to look for evidence of conditions that could support life, TASS ...

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