Jupiter has four large moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – with diameters of more than 3000 kilometres. However, as of April 2023, we know it is also home to 91 additional small satellites.

If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side of the gas giant: they are the Galilean moons, four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet.

A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new theory about the formation of Jupiter's largest moons. In their paper ...

then that means that these three moons have been in this dynamical configuration potentially for the entire age of the solar system," as well, de Kleer says. The post Jupiter's moon Io has likely ...

"Based on our projections, I don’t think Jupiter will ever catch up," said lead researcher ... for Astrophysics and Jean-Marc ...

Scientists believe that the moons are remnants of larger objects shattered by ancient collisions, a glimpse into the chaotic early solar system.

The discovery has raised a lot of questions. How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody seen these ones already? Doesn’t Jupiter have the most moons? What are they going to call all these ...

The Europa Clipper mission will send a satellite that will slingshot off Mars and Earth to get to Jupiter by 2030. The goal of the mission is to circle one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa ...