The eight largest moons in our solar system are Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Earth's Moon, Europa, Triton, and Titania.

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

On September 11, 2025, a groundbreaking study showed that scientists can detect unusual ice phases that do not exist on Earth ...

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The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, was hit by an asteroid 20 times larger than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs on Earth, according to new research. The impact, reckoned to ...

Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system and is even wider than the planet Mercury. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The history of our solar system is a ...

A Kobe University researcher has confirmed that an asteroid which struck Jupiter’s moon Ganymede was about 20 times larger than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs on Earth. According to the ...

The asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was nothing compared to a bigger impact that occurred roughly four billion years ...