It will fly past Europa and Jupiter’s outer moon Callisto, before settling into orbit around Ganymede itself. Callisto is named after a nymph seduced by Jupiter: when his jealous wife found out ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists still debate whether these came from asteroids that passed close into Mars' ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ... in the grip of Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an eccentric orbit, and its distance from the giant ...

The moon orbits around the Earth, rather than the Sun ... But only a few moons in our solar system were likely created this way. Scientists predict that Jupiter's and Saturn's inner moons formed ...

Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does ...

NASA develops miniature underwater robot to explore Jupiters icy moons NASAs innovation focuses on a compact submersible for ...

(Think about how full moon, or our brightest moon ... There were three conjunctions — or close passes — of Jupiter and Saturn around 7 B.C. The two planets were close enough that they may ...

This happens because, although Earth and Jupiter both have orbits around the sun that are almost ... you may even be able to see some of Jupiter’s larger moons as well. One key tip for observing ...

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every ... Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an eccentric orbit ...