Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can be. Its surface glows with ...

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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar system, coming from a giant underground magma chamber on the "tormented" Jovian ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to ...

Jupiter's moon Io may host alien life in protected lava tubes. Now, Avi Loeb claims the anomalous interstellar object ...

"It's like estimating the brightness of a bonfire by observing only the flames and not the surrounding embers." Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the solar system ...

Jupiter’s moon Io (left side of image) is connected to Jupiter (right side of image) through the planet’s magnetic field. Juno’s close flyby of Io revealed electrons with varying properties in the ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself. New research suggests that the moon's orbit could ...

During its close flyby of Jupiter's moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io's volcanic surface. In this image, taken by the JunoCam ...

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On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Galileo ...