Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...

Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up. If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side ...

The presence of an ocean leaves open the possibility that it could host life. Another nearby moon, Europa, is also considered ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission has launched to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which may harbor a potentially habitable ocean beneath its surface.

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...

Explore NASA's upcoming space missions from 2025 to 2033, including lunar landers, Mars probes, asteroid flybys, and ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon ... which revealed that a large dark patch has emerged on the moon's surface. This area is likely covered in solidified lava flows that poured out during ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing ...

The Blue Ghost Lander built by Firefly Aerospace successfully entered the lunar orbit last week and has sent stunning first ...

Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely ... but a layer of rocks more than 150 miles beneath the surface. Both are key conditions known for leading to life ...