Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

In January 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted what he thought were four small stars tagging along with Jupiter. These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons ...

the prolific Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter's four largest moons: Ganymede, Io, Europa, and Callisto. This discovery unleashed a firestorm, with the Catholic Church placing ...

and to spot the moons of distant Jupiter that now bear his name. Night after night, he gazed into the sky and drew what he saw. Credit: Galileo Galilei, 1610 Within sixty years, Isaac Newton had ...

On 12 March 2013, Galileo satellite GSAT0104, alongside its fellow In-Orbit Validation (IOV) satellites, made history by enabling the first position fix by Europe's independent satellite ...

New data from the orbiter has unveiled some of the treacherous conditions of not only Jupiter, but its moon ... discovered by the ancient astronomer Galileo in 1610, is named for a mythological ...