Galileo Galilei, the renowned Italian astronomer and physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to science in the 16th and ...

A tour of the Galileo Museum invites a reflection on the scientist from Pisa, who went on to transform humanity's conception ...

Research into Jupiter’s moons shows Io and Europa did not evolve apart but formed with opposite compositions from the ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

A duo of geophysicists from Washington State University and Virginia Tech has uncovered a plausible pathway for nutrient ...

Jupiter and Saturn's different polar storms reveal clues about planet interiors: Saturn has harder bottom than Jupiter.

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ocean of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons and a leading candidate for ...

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) that was launched in 2023 will take about 8 years to arrive at the jovian system ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

By contrast, Saturn's atmosphere is layered more deeply. There, either weaker forcing reduces deep turbulence, or more energy ...

Over the years, passing spacecraft have observed mystifying weather patterns at the poles of Jupiter and Saturn. The two ...