NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the elusive fifth moon of Jupiter transiting the giant planet's Great Red Spot, giving astronomers a rare view of this small but intriguing natural satellite.

Do you sometimes forget the Jupiter has a lot more than a handful of major moons? It's not hard to, considering the media only ever seem to talk about four of them. But recently, a little Jovian moon ...

The tiny moon, Amalthea, can be seen orbiting the gas giant against a backdrop of its famous Great Red Spot, but you'll need to squint. Reading time 2 minutes Oh, there it is. Jupiter’s unassuming ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft snaps images of Jupiter and catches the tiny moon Amalthea as it orbits the planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt This is not just another sublime ...

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be used during this flyby in order to concentrate resources on higher priority research, such as the gravity measurements. Knowing Amalthea’s density might help pin down whether the origin of moons ...

Thanks to Juno, we have a visual understanding of just how small Amalthea is compared with the gas giant it orbits. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

Scientists studying data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft have found that Jupiter’s moon Amalthea is a pile of icy rubble less dense than water. Scientists expected moons closer to the planet to be ...

NASA’s long-lived Galileo spacecraft achieved partial success in a dash through Jupiter’s inner radiation belts and past the small moon Amalthea on Tuesday, its final flyby before a deliberate impact ...

Amalthea is a rubble pile moon that sports a curiously red surface and an anomalous energy budget. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

The images were taken during the spacecraft's 66th close flyby of Jupiter on Oct. 23. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Juno ...