Turn a telescope to the eastern sky in the hours following midnight on Nov. 5 to see two colossal shadows darken the cloud tops of the gas giant Jupiter as the Galilean moons Io and Europa pass ...

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Jupiter’s moon Io has revealed a breathtaking spectacle through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

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But Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who leads the Galileo Project and directs the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard ...

Just as Galileo’s telescope once revealed hidden truths about the universe that challenged prevailing narratives, a growing ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

On the early hours of November 5, Jupiter's moons Io and Europa will cast their shadows over the planet's cloud surface, visible through a telescope.

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and ...

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A Harvard astrophysicist who believes the Manhattan-sized comet hurtling towards Earth could possibly be fueled by alien ...