The eruption released energy six times greater than all Earth's power plants combined, exceeding 80,000 trillion watts.

The inspiration for these films come from the incredible images and sounds coming from the Galileo space probe. The four large moons of Jupiter were thought to be nothing more interesting than our ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

The European Union activated its Galileo satellite navigation system in December 2016. The EU is dedicated to setting this system apart from other navigation systems such as GPS - the US ...

During last week’s 17th European Space Conference, launch company Arianespace announced it had won three new contracts.

And yet, this was the case with Galileo’s discovery of Jovian satellites, which took shape from January 7, 1610. Astronomical changes were brewing at the end of 1609. With the telescope having ...

An abstract film that imagines the icy hatched-marked world of Jupiter's moon, Europa. This is the first in a four-part series dedicated to filmmaker Stan Brakhage. The soundtrack consists of ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized they were moons orbiting the gas giant. And thus, Io, Europa and Ganymede became ...

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.