Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Dexter defines The Galilean Suite as tone poems, but while ...

We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as familiar with. Scientists think they understand how the most important moon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 on a ...

LOS ANGELES -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft was set to make its last flyby of one of Jupiter's moons early today, marking the likely end of the science-gathering part of its 13-year mission. Galileo was ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...

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There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these Pottsville winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact you should be able to easily see it long before twilight fades.

This extraterrestrial photo shoot was far from lo-fi. NASA’s Juno mission passed within 930 miles of Jupiter’s volcanic third largest moon lo Saturday, capturing stunning images of the most volcanic ...

A new finding of ammonia on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could have important implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.