Ganymede is the largest of the 100-plus moons orbiting Jupiter, and is also the largest moon in the Solar System. It is so ...

A colossal asteroid, estimated to be 20 times larger than the one that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth, has left a permanent mark on Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. This ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

That’s because Jupiter’s four major moons ... of Ganymede, revealing a haunting sound. This image of a Jupiter solar eclipse is just the latest contribution that this spacecraft has made ...

Citizen Science Reveals That Jupiter's Colorful Clouds Are Not Made of Ammonia Ice Jan. 6 ... an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest ...

For one, it is covered by a crust made of ice ... Mercury and Ganymede.” Will JUICE just study Jupiter’s moons? JUICE will also study the environment around Jupiter. “We’re going to ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized they were moons orbiting the gas giant. And thus, Io, Europa and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

An Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Galileo was a polymath who made fundamental ... Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are now four of over 90 moons of Jupiter that ...