At this time, Jupiter can be seen as a bright magnitude-1.83 point of light shining in the constellation Taurus to the upper left of the crescent moon, while Mars will be visible higher in the ...

The moon and Jupiter — the solar system's largest planet — will remain visible into the early morning of Jan. 11, until they sink below the western horizon around 3:47 a.m. EST (0847 GMT).

It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists ...

Callisto, Jupiter's second-largest moon, may have a rocky surface with an ocean beneath the surface. Corey J. Cochrane, NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet Not only was the hot spot larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also was seen belching out ...

The Europa Clipper launched at 12:06 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to ...

S cott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

No moon in our solar system is likely as chaotic as Io, Jupiter’s third largest. The rocky body looks like a pepperoni pizza because of the constant, numerous eruptions on its surface. The ...