ESA 's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is ultimately headed for the Jovian system, but on Aug. 20, it took a quick look at ...

The four large outer worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are sometimes called the Jovian or "Jupiter-like" planets because of their enormous size relative to the terrestrial planets.

leading the moon by more than 20” — about half the width of the jovian disk. Meanwhile, Callisto lies alone far to Jupiter’s ...

With the exception of Pluto, planets in our solar system are classified as either terrestrial (Earth-like) or Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets. Terrestrial planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft was dispatched on a mission in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter. It has beamed back some truly ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

Interesting as the Jovian lunar phenomena are, as seen from the earth, they would be much more so if they could be viewed from the planet itself. At present we may but sigh and piously express the ...

The European Space Agency has finished its final Juice atmosphere test, confirming the ingredients for life exist in Earth's ...

Europa Clipper is officially slated to launch on October 10, a month from today, following crunch-time reviews of the ...

The dark matter particles are captured by the planet's gravity and slurped into ... for three hours on either side of Jovian midnight, where auroral influences are minimal and no sunlight can ...

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...