Two icy moons of Jupiter, though neighboring and of similar size, exhibit radically different internal structures. A new ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

SCHENK: Ganymede is really big. It's about 3,000 miles across. ... These are impact craters, not individual ones like we see on most other worlds but a long chain of them.

This impact was powerful enough to destabilise Ganymede, causing it to spin on its axis. Impact Details and Effects. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports on 3 September 2024, reveals ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly ...

Expert: 'Giant impact' hit Jupiter's moon Ganymede. The impact of a large asteroid – Hirata's computer simulations suggest the asteroid measured 186 miles in diameter – could cause the moon to ...

Researchers from Kobe University have discovered that a colossal asteroid, 20 times larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs, struck Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, around 4 billion years ...

An ancient impact Ganymede has long intrigued Hirata, who said he believes uncovering its evolution is “meaningful.” The moon’s surface is a study in contrasts, with bright regions of ridges ...