Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently tested prototypes of miniature, self-propelled robots designed to ...

Among them was the discovery of four moons orbiting Jupiter. To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and therefore our planet was not the absolute center of ...

When Nasa's Juno probe approached Jupiter it caught sight of its four big moons - Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io. When Galileo Galilei's discovered these moons in 1610, it marked the birth of ...

Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system. Dive into the cosmos today!

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Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

JunoCam’s sequence of images of the NASA Juno mission's encounter with Jupiter's moon, io, on 3 February 2024. Comparison of Galileo and JunoCam data showing emergence of new volcano on Jupiter ...