Scientists have a new map -- the best created so far -- of the largest moon in our solar system, Ganymede, and it is both beautiful and revealing. Ganymede is technically a satellite of Jupiter, but ...

Amazing views of Jupiter over the years via the Hubble Space Telescope. The moons of Io, Ganymede and hazy Uranus can be ...

Left to right: The mosaic and geologic maps of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede were assembled incorporating the best available imagery from NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the site of the largest impact crater in the solar system, according to new research from Japan’s Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College.

This image of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon. At the time of closest approach, Juno was within ...

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 ...

Today, NASA announced evidence that Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, contains a liquid water ocean floating beneath its crust. The discovery is a masterpiece of indirect detection, using Hubble Space ...

Most people who have an interest in space and astronomy know that Europa and Enceladus have subsurface oceans that could, according to exobiologists, contain alien life. Another notable moon is Io, ...

The largest moon in our solar system may have been knocked off its axis and cracked like an egg four billion years ago by an asteroid bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth at the ...

An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that may have wiped out the dinosaurs struck Jupiter's moon Ganymede some 4 billion years ago, dramatically shifting the possibly life-hosting satellite's axis ...

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