Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears as a gray, mottled orb crossing the face of Jupiter in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Sixty-seven orbits of Jupiter. Two close-ups of its ...

An Ariane 5 rocket originally expected to launch Thursday is now set to take off Friday, boosting a $1.7 billion European Space Agency probe on a roundabout 8-year voyage to Jupiter where it will ...

Orbiting Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft streaked past Ganymede on Monday, beaming back the first close-up views of the largest moon in the solar system since the Galileo orbiter last flew past in ...

A European spacecraft rocketed away from Earth on Friday on a decadelong quest to explore Jupiter and three of its icy moons that could hold buried oceans. The journey began with a perfect morning ...

As the Solar System-wide quest to find the building blocks of life carries on, humanity's isolated a few places most likely to show us the clues we're looking for. More often than not, the public's ...

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is a study in contrasts: Bright swaths of pure, frozen water slice through darker, heavily cratered ice. New stereo images of Ganymede suggest these swaths are the aftermath of ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured vivid images of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby on June 7. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Ganymede, a behemoth of an icy moon in Jupiter's orbit, was ...

If it was a geostationary orbit (as would be implied if it's purpose was to direct sunlight down onto the moon's surface), would at least some pieces fall straight-ish down? Click to expand... No.