At opposition, Earth lies directly between Jupiter and the Sun, so the planet is fully illuminated from our point off view ...
If you’ve been seeing an unusually bright ‘star’ in the sky recently, it’s actually Jupiter, which will shine at its ...
Cosmologists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: that the cosmos might fold back on itself so that, on the ...
Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...