Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. February 10: The Moon approaches Antares ...

Jupiter is the object you’ll want to be watching this evening, as Ganymede prepares to transit along with its shadow. About an hour before that event starts, Ganymede and Europa line up as the two ...

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede could be a vast dark matter detector, and upcoming space missions might be able to spot distinctive dark matter craters on its ancient surface. Physicists searching for dark ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 on a ...

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.

This week, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope found that Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, has as vast, salty ocean under… Read More ...

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 ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 6The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky ...