a team led by the University of Berkeley and including scientists from CNRS Terre & Univers turned to Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System, orbiting Jupiter. This satellite has a ...

A colossal asteroid slammed into Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with so much power it dramatically and permanently reoriented the moon roughly 4 billion years ago, new research suggests ...

Scientists believe Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could be one of humanity's best bets to find some form of extraterrestrial ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...

Io is volcanic because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter and three of its other largest moons—Europa, Ganymede and Callisto—which causes the moon to be tugged in different directions during ...

With a diameter of 5150 kilometres, Titan is the second largest moon in the entire Solar System, second only to Jupiter's moon Ganymede with a diameter of 5262 kilometres. Titan is the only moon in ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

Frank Sinatra once sang, “Fly me to the moon,” but now anyone on Earth can ask “Which moon do you want to go to, Frank?” ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back new, eye-catching images of Jupiter, capturing intricate views of the planet's turbulent ...

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 ...

Ganymede, the largest moon in the entire solar system, is bigger than Mercury and has its own magnetic field generated internally from a liquid metal core. Callisto appears somewhat inert compared ...