NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean ...

to perform repeated close flybys of one of giant Jupiter’s enigmatic moons, Europa. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech GOLDEN, Colorado — NASA’s Europa Clipper, now en route to Jupiter, departed with ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Scientists have long thought that our solar system's ocean worlds, such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, ...

Fluorescent caves deep below America show how alien life could exist on one of Jupiter's moons, say scientists. The chemistry ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission set sail last year and should reach Jupiter and its moons in 2030, while the European Space Agency's JUICE mission should arrive in 2031. Both missions will almost ...

Inside Wind Cave the scientists found that chemicals fossilised within the rocks shine in brilliant hues of pink, blue, and ...

They say their research, part-funded by NASA, may reveal how life could persist in faraway places, such as on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. The team explained that the chemistry in the American ...