Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The close-up of a gas giant is striped with tans, browns, and some faint orange. A white arrow points to a small dark dot, the ...

The mysterious, irregularly shaped Amalthea is one of Jupiter’s five inner moons. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Almost everyone knows that Jupiter has more moons than it probably knows what to do with—Ninety-five and counting as of the last estimates. But if you ask most folks, they'll only be able to call out ...

Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstadt processed a JunoCam image that reveals tiny moon Amalthea in front of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Mars is a famously red object in our solar system, but it’s not the ...