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 ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Using this telescope, Galileo peered up towards the constellation Orion on January 7, 1610. His target was the planet Jupiter – an object brighter than the surrounding stars. To his surprise ...

In January 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted what he thought were four small stars tagging along with Jupiter. These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

This image of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ... Planetary scientists had not seen an image of the moon since 2000 when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft revealed impact craters ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

“Their discovery is credited to Galileo, but they were possibly discovered ... four tone poems about the largest moons of Jupiter—Io, ... [+] Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.

Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him in conflict ...

Astronomy enthusiasts in Madurai witnessed a rare planetary alignment of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, organized by the ...