The volcanic world of Jupiter's moon Io can be seen in extraordinary detail in new images beamed from NASA’s Juno orbiter after its most recent flyby. The encounter was Juno's second with Io ...

Roughly the size of Earth’s Moon, Io’s surface is marked by intense volcanic activity, driven by unique internal dynamics. This volcanic powerhouse orbits Jupiter every 42.5 hours along an ...

This tiny image of Io, which includes two simultaneous volcanic plumes, is what led JPL engineer Linda Morabito to notice the moon's volcanic activity for the first time in 1979. Credit: NASA/JPL ...

More Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA's Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption ...

The volcano-laced surface of Jupiter’s moon Io was captured in infrared by the Juno spacecraft’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) imager as it flew by at a distance of was about 50,000 ...

NASA's Juno mission has captured images of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The craft has now mapped all of the world's volcanoes, and will help scientists determine what lies under the lava surface.

The lake was discovered on Io using data from Juno's most recent flyby of Jupiter's volcanic moon. According to NASA, Io is filled with hundreds of volcanoes.

With its close flybys of Io, the team behind the Juno mission is investigating the source of the moon’s volcanic activity and hoping to find out whether it is harboring a magma ocean underneath ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, will maneuver nine flybys of Io to observe a network of volcanoes and study Jupiter’s magnetosphere, the first close ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently in orbit around Jupiter, will soon be making a close flyby of one of the planet’s most dramatic moons, Io. On Saturday, December 30, Juno will come within ...

An exoplanet the size of Earth has been discovered in a distant solar system, and it could be bursting with volcanic activity. According to a paper published on Wednesday in the journal Nature ...