Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

There are new, high-quality images of Jupiter's moon, Io, thanks to the nearest flyby of the celestial body by a spacecraft in decades. NASA released images Saturday taken by the Juno spacecraft ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

NASA’s Juno mission captured Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30 during its closest flyby. Image: NASA/Image processed by Kevin M. Gill The mutilated surface of Jupiter’s moon Io was revealed ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

"Io represented a big mystery because its surface doesn't hold a record of its history the way that the surfaces of less active moons do." The solar system's most volcanic body, the Jupiter moon ...

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 ...

Here’s how it works. 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 ...

The last time a spacecraft got this close to Jupiter's moon Io was more than 20 years ago, a blink of an eye on a typical geological timescale. Most planetary bodies in our Solar System wouldn't ...

And then there’s Jupiter’s moon, Io. Io is the most volcanic object known to science. A rust-hued orb, its rocky seas of lava are larger than cities and its eruption plumes arc across the sky ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, is covered in lakes made of lava, according to a new paper in the journal ...