NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

Research conducted by scientists with NASA’s Juno mission has unveiled the mechanisms behind intense volcanic activity on ...

Hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io are likely powered in the same way as Earth’s volcanoes.

Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to previous claims, suggests a paper published in ...

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the ...

What seems like a very bright star will appear in the midnight sky this weekend, but it's not a star at all. Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, will outshine everything in the midnight ...

Jupiter will be at its brightest and most visible in the night sky on Saturday. It will be almost as bright as Venus, and ...

You can vote on one of seven possible names for a quasi-moon of Earth and, unfortunately, Moony McMoonface isn't on the list.

NASA’s Europa Clipper deploys magnetometer and radar antennas Europa Clipper begins its 1.8 billion-mile journey to study Jupiter’s icy Instruments on Europa Clipper will help study Europa's ...

Researchers enhance chemical models for studying icy moons like Enceladus Focus on organic compounds and extreme conditions on ocean worlds Findings may guide future ...

Launched on Oct. 14, the Europa Clipper spacecraft is currently en route to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which is believed to harbor a subsurface ocean. The mission lifted off from NASA's ...