NASA has detected water vapor for the very first time in the atmosphere of Ganymede — not only Jupiter's largest moon, but the largest moon in our entire solar system. Researchers made the discovery ...

It's been ten years since NASA launched its Juno space probe to study Jupiter and its many moons — and its latest images of the gas giant and its satellites are as stunning as ever. Now, Juno has ...

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 ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in the last two decades, according to NASA. The moon is the largest in our solar system. (FILE-A screenshot from the ...

NASA's Juno probe has flown closer to Jupiter and its largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than two decades — and the images it beamed back of the gas giant and its icy orb are ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This image of Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has imaged Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, and has captured images showing how its unusual magnetic field affects the ice at its poles. Juno passed by Ganymede on December 26, ...

Ganymede, get ready for your close-up. No probe has gotten a good view of Jupiter's largest moon since 2000, when NASA's Galileo spacecraft swung past the strange world, which is the largest moon in ...

NASA's Juno Probe, one of its popular image and video capturing satellites, was able to take some astounding photos of Jupiter and its largest moon, Ganymede. Aside from still images, the space agency ...

Since deep-space explorations are typically a one-way journey, such as with NASA's Europa mission, the spacecraft will intentionally crash into the solar system's largest moon Ganymede, after ...

"Juno carries a suite of sensitive instruments capable of seeing Ganymede in ways never before possible." According to NASA, Ganymede is bigger than the planet Mercury. The flyby was the closest a ...