Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

One of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, Europa has long fascinated scientists. Some 90 percent the size of our own Moon, the satellite is believed to host a global ocean of liquid saltwater twice ...

Jupiter shines brightly in the east around 7 p.m. right now. Our solar system’s largest planet is nicely placed between the horns of Taurus, the Bull.

Jupiter's four best-known moons are the Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. They are named Ganymede, ...

Dave Dexter, composer of The Galilean Suite, four tone poems about the largest moons of Jupiter—Io, ... [+] Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It's fair to say that of all the moons, it’s Io—the ...

Much more recently, beginning in 1892, dozens of far smaller Jovian moons have been detected and have received the names of lovers (or other sexual partners) or daughters of the Roman god Jupiter or ...

Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter. Got a pair of binoculars? Point them at Jupiter tonight—or any night during its bright opposition month—and you’ll ...

The American space agency's Juno probe has returned some close-in views of Ganymede - one of Jupiter's four Galilean moons and the largest natural satellite in the Solar System. The imagery was ...

NASA created an incredible visualization of the orbits of 64 of Jupiter's moons. First you see the four innermost small moons, then the Galilean moons. Then, zooming out from the planet ...

These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Europa is one of the four so-called Galilean moons of Jupiter, along with Ganymede, Io and Callisto. What type of life might Europa harbor? Besides water ...

Oc­cul­ta­tion of Jupiter and the Galilean moons – Io, Eu­ropa, Ganymede and Cal­lis­to – by Deimos, ob­served dur­ing Mars Ex­press or­bit 22,859, on 14 Febru­ary 2022. The dis­tance from Mars ...