Science news articles about 'jupiter moon'

... team. Conventional adaptive optics systems using a single Jupiter moon as reference cannot monitor ... because we had to track with high accuracy two moons moving at different speeds, while simultaneously ...

Skywatchers across the world witnessed a rare celestial trifecta Monday night as Venus and Jupiter joined a thin crescent moon to form a giant grin.

Europa's waters are chaotic, not calm—a distinction that makes life on the icy moon sound more likely, a new study says.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, is seen just before it slips behind its giant planet in a new color image and a movie made by a University of Arizona ...

"I'd be shocked if no life existed on Europa," one scientist says—and provocative new research suggests the moon's seas have enough oxygen for fishlike animals.

Curved features on Jupiter’s moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution, Lunar and Planetary Institute, and University of ...

Scientists have come up with an explanation for some puzzling features on Jupiter’s moon.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hovering in a tiny submarine 1.4 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist felt as if he were in a time machine, witnessing the ancient ...

How spiders evolved; a stinking blossom's secret; a Jupiter moon turns to the dark side.

Calculations bode well for possibility of life on Jupiter’s moon