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Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

On January 7, 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's moons: Callisto, Europa and Io. When he looked at Jupiter through his telescope, he saw what he thought were three tiny ...

As its name suggests, the mission’s target is Europa, one of the biggest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. Europa is a snowball ... phosphorus and sulphur. All of these have already been found ...

The Juno mission, which has been orbiting and observing Jupiter and its moons ... and all across its middle, (which are) constantly going off.” The new data suggests that Io’s numerous ...

The planet named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology is visible all ... Jupiter looks like it has tiny little appendages on either side of it. These are Jupiter’s four largest moons.

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

Observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, combined with all-available historical data, indicate that volcanic activity on Jupiter's second ... understanding of other moons, such as Enceladus ...

Therefore, identifying exomoons orbiting CBPs within their star's habitable zone could hold promise for potentially identifying Earth-sized exomoons orbiting gas giants larger than Jupiter.