"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

Research into Jupiter’s moons shows Io and Europa did not evolve apart but formed with opposite compositions from the ...

While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Jupiter is the biggest planet in our Solar System. With 79 moons, it falls just behind Saturn’s moon count of 82. Imagine looking up into the night sky and seeing not one but 79 different moons ...

Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...

The giant planet Jupiter has nearly 100 known moons, yet none have captured the interest and imagination of astronomers and space scientists quite like Europa, an ice-shrouded world that is thought to ...

Live Science reports on Jupiter’s opposition on January 10, 2026, explaining what it means, how bright Jupiter will appear, where to find it in the sky, and how to see the planet and its four main ...

Jupiter reaches opposition, making it brighter and larger than at any other time this year. A rare transit of its moon ...

Jupiter steals the spotlight in January as it reaches its brightest and biggest appearance of the year. The month also ...