While Jupiter itself may seem like an inhospitable gas giant, its numerous moons offer some of the most promising,and underexplored,opportunities for human colonization in our solar system. This video ...

Deep furrows cover large swaths of Ganymede’s surface, and they form a pattern of concentric circles around one spot that have led some astronomers to believe the moon experienced a major impact ...

Ganymede is an enormous moon, larger than any other we’ve found, including our own, and may one day be the centerpiece of wider human settlements around Jupiter.

An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that may have wiped out the dinosaurs struck Jupiter's moon Ganymede some 4 billion years ago, dramatically shifting the possibly life-hosting satellite's ...

The research team published a study on Europa in The Planetary Science Journal earlier this year and has had a study on Ganymede accepted for publication in the journal JGR: Planets. Jupiter's ...

At nearly 3,300 miles in diameter, Ganymede is also the solar system’s largest moon—bigger even than the 3,030-mile wide planet Mercury. But that doesn’t mean it’s impervious to a pounding.

Jupiter's moon Ganymede had a visitor from Earth on Monday. NASA's Juno spacecraft zoomed by in the afternoon, just 645 miles above the surface of the solar system's largest moon.