The planets offer exciting views in April for both night owls and early risers. Plus, the Lyrid meteor shower peaks in ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Four billion years ago, Ganymede literally got knocked sideways. A giant asteroid slammed into Jupiter’s largest moon, ...

A massive asteroid with a surface area approximately twice the size of the Chicago metropolitan area impacted Ganymede, the ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede is generating "killer" waves of electrons that astronomers say could damage spacecraft going on future missions. These electromagnetic waves can be found all around ...

Ganymede, and Callisto. The Moon is non-luminous, meaning that it does not produce light. We see the Moon because it reflects light from the Sun, and half of the Moon’s surface is always ...

Towards the end of the mission, the JUICE probe dedicates its experiments in detail to the largest moon in our Solar System, Ganymede. The focus is on a suspected ocean under a kilometre-thick ice ...