Early in the morning on Wednesday, May 17, gas giant Jupiter and its four bright Galilean moons will pass behind a very thin crescent moon. The moon and Jupiter will be quite a sight in the early ...

Most of us know four moons of Jupiter, called the Galilean moons because they were first discovered by Galileo in 1610. Named for figures closely associated with Jupiter from Greek mythology ...

Ganymede is Jupiter's largest moon and is also the largest moon in the entire solar system. It is bigger than both Mercury and dwarf planet Pluto and only slightly smaller than Mars. The moon ...

The small objects will give Saturn 145 moons — eclipsing Jupiter’s total of 95. “They both have many, many moons,” said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer from the Carnegie Institution for ...

Jupiter briefly stole the limelight ... Cassini captured five of Saturn's moons in 2011. A new study puts the latest moon count at 145. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute ...

In contrast, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has confirmed Jupiter's moon count at 95. The newly discovered moons of Saturn have currently been designated with numbers and letters.

A newly-launched space mission to Jupiter will study three of its icy moons' subsurface water for any sign of life. In early 1610, using his refracting telescope, Italian astronomer and physicist ...

That brings Saturn’s moon count to a total of 145 moons — over 50 more than Jupiter’s 92. Jupiter is the largest planet orbiting our sun, so it made sense that it would also have the most ...

At most recent count, it has 117 confirmed moons, leapfrogging Jupiter’s recent record high of 95 moons. The title of “most moons” will likely continue to swap back and forth between our gas ...

With so many moons — at last count 95 — astronomers consider Jupiter a mini solar system of its own, with missions like Juice long overdue. “This is a mission that is answering questions of science ...

The small objects will give Saturn 145 moons – eclipsing Jupiter's total of 95. "They both have many, many moons," said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer from the Carnegie Institution for Science in ...

The moon and Jupiter will be quite a sight in the early morning skies tomorrow. Sometime before or after sunrise (depending on where you are) on Wednesday, May 17, gas giant Jupiter and its four ...