Researchers working at Lick Observatory — a major site in the University of California Observatories’ multi-campus research unit — discovered Jupiter’s moon Amalthea in 1892, contributed to dark ...

June's full Strawberry Moon peaks at 3:44 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. This year's Strawberry Moon will be the lowest on the horizon since 2006, due to a major lunar standstill.

The moons Amalthea and Thebe, though small, played a key role in this study. Their slightly tilted orbits allowed researchers to trace the historical position of Io, Jupiter's closest moon. This ...

Scientists focused on Jupiter's little moons Amalthea and Thebe. Their peculiar orbits didn't quite fit with Jupiter's current size. Rather than solely depending on planet formation theories, the ...

Jupiter was twice as big as it is today and had a magnetic field 50 times stronger Our Solar System's largest planet, Jupiter, was once so huge that it could have held 2,000 Earths, a study has found.

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe.Both are ...

By analyzing these orbits, the researchers were able to trace the historical position of Io, Jupiter's innermost large moon. This, in turn, gave them insight into the original structure of Jupiter ...

Jupiter's already the big kahuna of the Solar System, an absolute unit of a planet with a mass 2.5 times greater than all of the rest of the planets combined.. Prepare, then, to have your mind blown – ...

The Pink Moon 2025 will light up the sky on April 12. Learn why it’s called the Pink Moon, its spiritual significance and the best time to watch it in India.

The moon won't be turning a shade of pink this weekend, but nevertheless it will still be a sight to behold. Here's what to know about the pink, full moon.

There was an opportunity Thursday night to catch the March 2025 "Blood Moon," a phenomenon that colors the full moon in shades of red, orange and yellow during a total lunar eclipse.

Scientists didn’t discover any more satellites around Jupiter until 1892 when American astronomer E.E. Barnard found Jupiter’s fifth moon Amalthea, much smaller than the Galilean moons and orbiting ...