All together, they form a satellite system which is called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io; Europa; Ganymede; and Callisto, which were independently ...

Jupiter shines brightly in the east around 7 p.m. right now. Our solar system’s largest planet is nicely placed between the horns of Taurus, the Bull.

But the question of how many natural satellites the planet truly has is a bit more complicated. Jupiter's four best-known ...

Dexter defines The Galilean Suite as tone poems, but while Holst’s inspiration for The Planets was astrological, this work is influenced by what we know about the moons’ geology.

These moons were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 and are significant ... known as a 4:2:1 resound which indicates that the satellites have similar revolutions in the system.

The American space agency's Juno probe has returned some close-in views of Ganymede - one of Jupiter's four Galilean moons and the largest natural satellite in the Solar System. The imagery was ...