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 ...

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.

The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023. Data from recent flybys is helping ...

NASA's Juno mission revealed that Jupiter's moon, Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, doesn't possess a global ...

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 ...

It may be cold this month, but now is a great time to get outside and explore Jupiter's beauty and might. The fifth planet will not only reach opposition on Dec. 7, it will also be at perigee (closest ...

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 ...

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 ...