The Solar System is more than just planets; it is home to a dazzling variety of moons, each with its own unique charm. Some are icy and serene, others are stormy or volcanic. Among the many satellites ...

When searching for the unknown, classic physics wisdom holds that a bigger detector boosts the chances of discovery. A physicist is taking that advice to heart, advancing a bold plan to use none other ...

Asteroid impact reshaped Jupiter's moon Ganymede 4 billion years ago The moon's surface and rotation were dramatically altered by impact ESA's JUICE mission aims to study Ganymede’s changes in 2031 ...

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 ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was likely ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis when a massive asteroid smashed into it about 4 billion years ago, according to a new study. Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system ...

A massive asteroid, 20 times larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs, knocked Jupiter’s moon Ganymede off its axis about four billion years ago, according to new research. Detailed in a new ...

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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 axis ...

The largest moon in our solar system may have been knocked off its axis and cracked like an egg four billion years ago by an asteroid bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth at the ...

Kobe University HIRATA Naoyuki was the first to realize that the location of an asteroid impact on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is almost precisely on the meridian farthest away from Jupiter. This implied ...