In January 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei spotted what he thought were four small stars tagging along with Jupiter. These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons ...

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 ...

Galileo, which orbited Jupiter between 1995 and 2003, flew close to Europa several times, offering humanity its first detailed glimpses of the moon's surface and its secrets. The critical ...

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 ...

Jupiter's four best-known moons are the Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. They are named Ganymede, ...

On November 5, 2002, NASA's old Galileo spacecraft was almost out of fuel. But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Galileo flew ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... He saw mountains on the Moon (very anti-Aristotle this), then satellites orbiting Jupiter, which he mapped with such accuracy that his ...

Image was shared on social media in October. The third-largest moon in the solar system—almost as big as the planet Mercury—Callisto was first spotted orbiting Jupiter in 1610 by the astronomer ...

Jupiter and four of its largest moons. (Photo by Bob Drieslein) On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched the ”Europa Clipper” aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This ...