Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing ...

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the solar system: Jupiter. At mid-twilight, roughly 45 minutes after sundown ...