James Webb Space Telescope Sees Jupiter's Rings, Moons and Auroras Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: NASA, ESA, Jupiter ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

The irregular characteristics are only possessed by moons around the four giant planets, namely Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Unlike the primary moons, the orbits of these irregular moons are ...

There are plenty of celestial landmarks you can see with the naked eye, and this month, you can view Mars and four of Jupiter’s 95 moons.

The small pinpoints of light are the four largest moons of Jupiter, called the Galilean moons ... For further night sky details, maps and audio, visit my website www.starrytrails.com.

But it hasn’t always been this way. Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo ...

Markov chain analysis identified the dominant mechanism as a ‘C 4 ’ jump-rotation ... For example, the contrasting internal structures of Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Callisto, despite ...

4. WASP-193 b: The Cotton Candy Planet Confirmed in 2023, WASP-193 b is one of the lightest, fluffiest planets ever observed. Roughly 1.5 times the diameter of Jupiter but containing only 14 percent ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...