Europa was first discovered in 1610 by Florentine astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei. Using a homemade ...

Jupiter’s largest moons, known as the Galilean moons, are known not only for their size but for their unique features. Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, these moons—Ganymede, Callisto ...

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon ...

Dexter defines The Galilean Suite as tone poems, but while Holst’s inspiration for The Planets was astrological, this work is influenced by what we know about the moons’ geology.

NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons came to an end. After 14 years of exploration, the Galileo spacecraft ...

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 ...

The answer is not only “yes,” but “soon,” according to space agencies involved in a new push to establish a GPS-like constellation around the moon ... and Europe’s Galileo constellations.

SpaceX is watching the weather ahead of Tuesday's Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission, which ...

But let's backtrack to the very first time someone discovered new moons around Jupiter. The year was 1610 and the someone was Galileo Galilei. Thanks to his extremely detailed note-taking ...

The Moon does not produce its own light. We can see the Moon because it reflects light from the Sun. The Moon orbits the Earth, and as this happens the Moon’s appearance when viewed from the ...

Underneath its icy exterior, the Galilean moon is believed to harbor a deep ocean which contains twice as much seawater as Earth. Once it arrives in 2030, the Europa Clipper will perform dozens of ...

With the previous Galileo launch this year, SpaceX disposed of the booster, which means allowing it to drop unrecovered into the Atlantic Ocean, to allow for additional power to get the satellites ...