Saturn, Jupiter’s outer neighbour, currently has 83 known satellites. The four larger moons mentioned above, also known as the 'Galilean moons', account for 99.997 percent of the total mass of Jupiter ...

Europa is the next moon out, and it ... while others hit the Galilean satellites. Knowing what's out there, Shoemaker has calculated the current cratering rate on Europa. The surface should ...

Intuitive Machines may have crashed its latest moon lander on the lunar surface, but that's not keeping the company down for ...

NASA When the spacecraft’s namesake, Galileo Galilei, first trained his telescope on Jupiter in 1610, he saw only four moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto (arranged in this artificial ...

Saturn's moons are much smaller than Jupiter's four large moons: Ganymede (the largest satellite in the Solar System), Callisto, Io and Europa, known collectively as the 'Galilean' moons after the ...

In recent decades, space missions have increasingly relied on the ability to change the course of a satellite's path ...

that recently touched down on the Moon, the Lunar GNNS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) has become the first practical demonstration of acquiring and tracking Earth orbital GNSS satellites. LuGRE ...