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 ...

A gargantuan asteroid impact on Ganymede, the solar system’s largest moon, significantly altered the body’s axis, according to a new study in Scientific Reports. Ganymede is a Jovian moon that is ...

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 ...

Could our Earth also be shrinking? Theoretically, yes, as the heat from the Earth's core is also gradually dissipating.

Titan's shadow will fall over Saturn during the early morning hours of Sept. 4. Heads up stargazers! The shadow of Saturn's ...

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 ...