The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing ...

"For the very first time, we have a global view of Io's ongoing volcanic activity." The most volcanically active world in the solar system, Jupiter's moon Io, may possess a global ocean of magma ...

Io — Jupiter's fifth moon — is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Io's surface is peppered with hundreds of volcanoes, some spewing sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles high.

Io is the most volcanic body known to science, and researchers have puzzled over its history for years. A new report suggests it was born this way. This image revealing the north polar region of ...

Juno's infrared camera also detected lava flows and volcanic deposits, indicative of intense activity. Juno's observations reveal remarkable changes to Io's surface. In just a few years, the moon ...

The spacecraft zipped within 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the moon’s surface, capturing images ... The new data suggests that Io’s numerous volcanoes are each likely powered by their ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft's mission to Jupiter has set its sights on the moon Io. The agency said in a release, sharing a striking image of the moon's volcano-laced surface captured in the infrared ...

Juno came within 1,500 kilometers of Io’s scorched surface. Although the remarkable images of active volcanoes drew everyone’s attention, the goal of these flybys was to find out if a magma ocean ...

On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a moon of Jupiter ... If astronauts ever actually did make it to the surface of Io—like the poor saps in the 1981 Sean ...

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the moon covered in lava plains. The erupting lava (molten rock that ...