A recent study published in Nature Astronomy examines how NASA’s Juno spacecraft identified the presence of mineral salts and organic compounds on Jupiter’s third Galilean moon, Ganymede, which ...

Next week, Europe will fly its first mission to the Jupiter system to explore the gas giant and three of its intriguing moons. This "means that we have seen the spacecraft for the last time ever," ESA ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water ...

Ganymede, one of the largest moons in the solar system, possesses a salty subsurface ocean that may contain organic compounds, new research finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As club sandwiches go, this undoubtedly is the biggest one in the solar system. Scientists said on Friday that Jupiter's moon Ganymede may possess ice and liquid oceans stacked ...

A mess of salt and organic chemicals splattered across the ice on Ganymede could be a hint that its hidden ocean contains the right stuff for life. NASA’s Juno mission recently revealed that the ...

Jupter’s frozen moon Europa and a couple of Saturn’s satellites have gotten lots of love from space probes dispatched by curious Earthlings. Now it’s Ganymede’s turn. Ganymede is Jupiter’s largest ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is sending an orbiter to explore Jupiter’s strange moons. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is scheduled to launch on 13 April from Kourou, French Guiana, and ...

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 ...

Next week, Europe will fly its first mission to the Jupiter system to explore the gas giant and three of its intriguing moons. The European Space Agency (ESA)-led Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft ...