Left to right: The mosaic and geologic maps of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede were assembled incorporating the best available imagery from NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.

Jupiter is an extraordinary planet with qualities that almost defy comprehension. At more than 300 times the mass of Earth, Jupiter is easily the largest planet in the solar system—a giant ball of ...

This image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon. At the time of closest approach, Juno was within ...

An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that may have wiped out the dinosaurs struck Jupiter's moon Ganymede some 4 billion years ago, dramatically shifting the possibly life-hosting satellite's axis ...

NASA's Juno deep-space probe has sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, to be captured in two decades. Snapped during Juno's flyby of the giant moon on June 7, the ...

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The ultimate fate of the European Space Agency's JUICE mission could drastically change should it succeed in discovering that Ganymede's ocean is both potentially habitable and accessible. "Currently ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured vivid images of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby on June 7. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Ganymede, a behemoth of an icy moon in Jupiter's orbit, was ...

Jupiter's moon Ganymede had a visitor from Earth on Monday. NASA's Juno spacecraft zoomed by in the afternoon, just 645 miles above the surface of the solar system's largest moon. It's the first time ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The magnetosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede sounds like a dial-up modem in a newly released ...

On June 8, 2021, researchers used the Keck I telescope on the summit on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea to observe Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in the shadow of the gas giant. During the three-hour eclipse, they were ...