Juice will look for signs of life on the Jovian moons, including Ganymede, Europa and Callisto, which astronomers say could host alien life. Its first flyby since its launch in April 2023 took ...

Eleven of the new moons join existing groups of Jovian satellites, but one of Jupiter's new moons follows a unique, odd path. The giant planet Jupiter has been hiding something — or 12 things ...

Juno is scheduled for an upcoming flyby of Jupiter on May 7, during which it is set to carry out a close approach of the ...

Given the massive amounts of radiation in the Jovian system, Europa Clipper will do 50 flybys of the moon over the course of four years to reduce damage to instruments as well as give it windows ...

For comparison, our own Moon is about 1,737 kilometers across. Even then, Amalthea is the largest of Jupiter's jovian moons or the irregularly-shaped moons that orbit Jupiter most closely.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode twice during a recent close pass of Jupiter, temporarily halting science operations.

In 2003 alone, astronomers identified 23 new moons. And in June of 2018, researchers discovered 12 more Jovian moons that wander in oddball paths around the giant world. Since Galileo first laid ...

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup of Jupiter's deep atmosphere by picking up ammonia from and dropping it somewhere else.