The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing ...

"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to ...

But it won't be a star that will be keeping the moon company on this early winter's evening, but the largest planet in the solar system: Jupiter. At mid-twilight, roughly 45 minutes after sundown ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however ...

There’s more to come in February, with Jupiter and the Moon "getting cosy" in the sky tonight. Between February 5-8, the gas giant planet will sit close to a waxing gibbous Moon – in its phase ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The moon, Jupiter, and the star Aldebaran will be very close with each other Thursday night. February is already the month of romance and the moon will kiss Jupiter with ...

The one closest to the moon is Jupiter, shining at a magnitude of -2.5, while Aldebaran — the brightest star in the constellation Taurus — lies below it. As night falls, look toward the east ...