ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that was launched in 2023 will take about 8 years to arrive at the jovian system ...

Through a vast ocean, Jupiter's moon Europa is an exciting target for research in the search for life. Two space probes are ...

Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the solar system's most volcanic body is even hotter ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and compressed. Heat generated by these contortions has melted pockets of the moon's ...

In 2 of the starting systems alone, several small moons have impossibly high populations which always seem to cluster between 400 - 600 million. If you do the math for surface area of a sphere given ...

Io’s volcanism is mainly driven by tidal heating, while Earth’s volcanism is driven by internal heat. Aside from this, the volcanic processes are fairly similar. However, Io has more energy to get rid ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind. While many other objects in the solar system have single moons, including some ...

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A mission to Jupiter launched over a decade ago is about to complete its work with a fiery plunge into the planet’s depths sometime this month. NASA’s Juno orbiter spacecraft reached Jupiter in 2016, ...

Astronomers have found 12 more moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. These moons are all small — just 5 kilometers or less across — and one of... Galileo Would Be Stunned: Jupiter Now Has 79 Moons More ...

It's called the Europa Clipper, and by all accounts it is the largest spacecraft NASA ever designed for planetary exploration. After it was launched in October 2024 on board a SpaceX Falcon Heavy ...