Ganymede is an enormous moon, larger than any other we’ve found, including our own, and may one day be the centerpiece of ...

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Have you ever wondered what a moon sounds like? Apparently, NASA has. Over the weekend ...

For Ganymede, Dexter got consumed by the idea that you could stand on the moon—the most habitable of the four—at night and see Jupiter and its aurora in its sky. “I went for a more modern ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Icy moon Ganymede—which JUICE will orbit—appears as a gray, mottled orb crossing the face of Jupiter ... [+] in this image ...

twisting and squeezing the interior of the moon, which results in energy being released as heat. Coupled with similar but smaller gravitational tides from fellow moons Europa, Ganymede and ...

The lava is kept hot and flowing thanks to the tidal forces experienced by Io, thanks to Jupiter itself and nearby moons Europa and Ganymede. It’s possible that the small moon may have once held ...

When conducting measurements, GALA sends short laser pulses down to the surface of the icy moon currently under investigation, Europa, Ganymede or Callisto. At the surface, the pulses are reflected ...