What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to huge heights.

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Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

This image shows Jupiter's moon Ganymede captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1996. Situated more than 600 ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

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Prepare for a mystical April 2025 night sky! See the Micro Pink Moon, Lyrid meteor shower, Mercury at maximum elongation, and ...

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.

The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody seen these ones already? Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these ...

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