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 ...

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

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(CNN) — Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis when a massive asteroid smashed into it about 4 billion years ago, according to a new study. Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system ...

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and is even wider than the planet Mercury. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The history of our solar system is a ...

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 ...

Our solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede of Jupiter, has never been completely mapped — until now. Scientists led by Wheaton College’s Geoffrey Collins combined data from NASA’s Voyager 1, 2 and ...