The Galileo probe expanded on our knowledge of Jupiter's moon, Io, showing us just how hot and hellish the Jovian satellite ...

While Io was discovered by Galileo in 1610 ... On November 24th, the probe completed its 66th flyby over Jupiter's cloud tops, and on December 27th, a particularly close approach to the planet ...

Since Galileo first laid telescope-enhanced eyes on Jupiter, scientists have continued to study the curious world from both the ground and the sky. In 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft ...

On this date in 2002, the Galileo probe makes it's 33rd pass by the Jovian moon, Io.

Using this telescope, Galileo peered up towards the constellation Orion on January 7, 1610. His target was the planet Jupiter – an object brighter than the surrounding stars. To his surprise ...

an accurate estimate of the amount of water deep within Jupiter's atmosphere remained elusive. Before the Galileo probe stopped transmitting 57 minutes into its Jovian descent in December 1995 ...

Jupiter’s wild atmosphere is on full display ... American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea in 1892. NASA’s Galileo spacecraft imaged the moon several times starting ...

These icy Jovian moons were first discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610. Jupiter's Folded Filamentary Region as photographed by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its Perijove ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.