While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor ...

Research into Jupiter’s moons shows Io and Europa did not evolve apart but formed with opposite compositions from 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 ...

How big can volcanic eruptions get on Jupiter’s moon, Io? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home to more than 100 massive volcanic mountains, some of which are taller than ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has provided new insight into Jupiter and its volcanic moon, Io. At Jupiter's north pole, powerful storms the size of Australia or bigger are wrapped in 100 mph winds. After ...

A celestial conjunction event featuring Venus and Spica is anticipated for November 3. Jupiter is expected to display a multi-phase transit phenomenon involving Io and its shadow, along with Europa's ...

Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...

This first-ever complete map of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io released on March 19, 2012, was created using data and images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, (which studied Jupiter and its moons between ...

While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor ...