A massive asteroid with a surface area approximately twice the size of the Chicago metropolitan area impacted Ganymede, the ...

Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede is generating "killer" waves of electrons that astronomers say could damage spacecraft going on future missions. These electromagnetic waves can be found all around ...

Their reasoning was simple: Mimas’ heavily cratered surface showed no signs ... And Europa’s and Ganymede’s oceans are pretty old. That a moon could form a new ocean well into its history ...

Ganymede, and Callisto. The Moon is non-luminous, meaning that it does not produce light. We see the Moon because it reflects light from the Sun, and half of the Moon’s surface is always ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

The GAnymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for ESA's JUICE mission to Jupiter consists of two electronics units and an optical component containing the laser and the telescope for the receiver. When ...

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just ...

Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears ... JUICE will search for pockets of liquid water under Europa’s icy surface—which is suspected to hide a liquid ocean— and hunt for ...