The planet named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology is visible all night long right now, rising in the east at ...

Io's volcanic activity explained without magma ocean evidence Tidal heating powers volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon ...

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

Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma.

Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.

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.

New measurements from NASA's Juno probe have seemingly put to bed the possibility of a magma ocean beneath the surface of Io.

Also visible this evening are Jupiter's four Galilean moons. The evening starts with only three moons visible, as Europa is ...

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 ...

Over the past few weeks, you’ve might have heard somewhere that Earth was about to get a second moon. Now it’s confirmed, Earth has two moons just after capturing asteroid 2024 PT5. Last September 29 ...

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 ...

is the Io Plasma Torus — a donut-shaped ring of charged particles spewed out by the plentiful volcanoes on Jupiter's eruptive moon, Io. Stallard suggested that friction between magnetic field ...