Jupiter's fifth moon to be discovered, and the fifth-largest of the planet's 95 known moons, is Amalthea. It was found in 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard, an American astronomer who was an ...

Scientists can't say the origins of Amalthea for sure. But a theorized abundance of water ice housed deep within the moon could suggest it originates from somewhere other than the Jovian system.

Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

Amalthea and Adrastea were both found relatively long ago. ... Both of the planets are actually the moons of moons; they orbit around Io, a large and dense moon of Jupiter.

Amalthea, just one of Jupiter's 95 official moons, was first discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892. It is about 100 miles wide and clumsily shaped like a potato because it lacks the mass to ...

With just 110,000 miles and change (177,027.8 km) separating Amalthea from the upper wisps of Jupiter's thick atmosphere, a significant enough cosmic event in its vicinity might be enough to knock ...

according to NASA, Amalthea has a potato-like shape. NASA's Juno Spacecraft recently spotted the mysterious fifth moon of Jupiter during its 59th close flyby of the giant planet earlier this year ...

Jupiter, roughly 562 million miles from Earth today, has nearly 100 moons. But Batygin and his collaborator Fred Adams' research focused on two of the smaller ones, Amalthea and Thebe.Both are ...

The tiny moon is called Amalthea and has a radius of just 52 miles (84 kilometres), that's around 20 times smaller than our own Moon. But unlike our Moon, Amalthea is shaped a bit like a potato ...

Jupiter's fifth moon to be discovered, and the fifth-largest of the planet's 95 known moons, is Amalthea. It was found in 1892 by Edward Emerson Barnard, an American astronomer who was an ...