This gas giant has some really unique features that make it stand out. If you’re curious about space, learning a few things ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

NASA have found something new moving in our Solar System. Even thought it's not water, still a phenomenon worth of time ...

NASA's Voyager probes passed through Jupiter's system and snapped pictures of its largest moons, also known as the Galilean moons. These pictures and the data they gathered offered the first hints ...

Viewable objects include the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the Milky Way, and star systems. An ordinary pair of binoculars, a tripod, and an astronomy app are all you need to start exploring the night ...

German astronomer Simon Marius is best remembered for his disputes with Galileo Galilei over priority for discovering Jupiter’s four major moons. This, despite the fact that Marius definitely ...

But the question of how many natural satellites the planet truly has is a bit more complicated. Jupiter's four best-known moons are the Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

The moons orbiting Jupiter from the Galilean group are in what scientists describe as orbital harmony. In the group of Io, Europa, and Ganymede there are orbital and geological interactions in the ...

ISS then moves to the southeast where it slips into the Earth’s shadow 15 degrees above the horizon at 9:37 p.m. Monday: The Galilean moons are a good target with binoculars or a telescope.

In a pair of studies published this month, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) probed two famous moons around the gas giant. Ganymede and Io are one-half of the Galilean moons, discovered by ...

Jupiter's four Galilean moons were discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610. NASA's Juno spacecraft launched from Earth in 2011 and entered Jupiter's orbit in 2016.