Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

But if you ask most folks, they'll only be able to call out a select four Jovian moons if they have to bring them to mind. Europa, Io, Calisto, and Ganymede, collectively known as the Galenian ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ice-covered Jovian moon Europa in 2030 and spend several years collecting and ...

The nine particularly distant moons also have retrograde orbits, meaning that they circle the gas giant in the opposite direction of its rotation; the inner Jovian moons, in contrast, have ...

Reaching the Jovian system in 2030, the orbiter will fire its engines to slow its approach to the gas giant and associated moons. NASA says that this process will take around six hours.

Juno, one of NASA’s spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and its moons, has been sending data back about the Jovian moons for months. Juno sent us terrifying images of Io just last month ...

The Jovian system as seen from Earth at about 1:30am Eastern Time on the morning of Sept. 26. The moons are, from left to right, Ganymede, then Io and Europa, then Callisto. This image was made wi ...

After revealing a trove of details about the moons Ganymede and Europa, the mission to Jupiter is setting its sights on sister moon Io. NASA's Juno mission is scheduled to obtain images of the ...

The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours - enough to keep a million humans breathing for a day. On Tuesday, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet ...

With Europa and Enceladus getting most of the attention for their subsurface oceans and potential to host life, other frozen worlds have been left in the shadows—but the mysterious Jovian moon ...