Ganymede is Juice’s primary target. During the first, Jupiter-orbiting phase of the mission, the spacecraft will make 12 flybys of the mysterious moon. It will later transfer from orbit around Jupiter ...

Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears as a gray, mottled orb crossing the face of Jupiter in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Sixty-seven orbits of Jupiter. Two close-ups of its ...

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[Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 14 to include details on the successful launch of the JUICE spacecraft.] Dominating the planets with its bulk, mighty Jupiter offers key insights into ...

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact, which confirmed ...

Ganymede is not only Jupiter's largest moon, but also the largest in our solar system and one of the few that hosts a massive ice ocean. Adding to this planet-like moon's uniqueness is the fact that ...

A gargantuan asteroid impact on Ganymede, the solar system’s largest moon, significantly altered the body’s axis, according to a new study in Scientific Reports. Ganymede is a Jovian moon that is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This natural-color image of Ganymede was captured by the Galileo spacecraft during its first flyby of the moon. (CREDIT: NASA/JPL) ...

Kobe University HIRATA Naoyuki was the first to realize that the location of an asteroid impact on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is almost precisely on the meridian farthest away from Jupiter. This implied ...