NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Due to the shape of its orbit, the moon's distance from its parent planet varies, and so too does ... Io's interior might be home to a large magma ocean, stretching beneath its entire surface like ...

Scientists think there’s an ocean of magma under its rocky surface. Io, which orbits Jupiter every 42 hours, was imaged by the only binocular telescope of its kind. Equipped with two 27-foot ...

Among Juno's instruments getting a good look at the beguiling ... revealed that the whole surface of Io is covered by lava lakes contained in caldera-like features," said Alessandro Mura, a ...

This allowed the team to compare what the region looked like in this latest flyby to how it appeared in images captured in two previous trips past Io. They found changes in surface coloring around ...

Nasa’s Juno spacecraft detected a huge lake of fire on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, which at around 100,000 ... another flyby on March 3 and will look out for the hotspot again, sending ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as ... Juno will use a more-distant flyby of Io on March 3 to look at the hot spot again and search for changes in the landscape.

Related: Space photo of the week: An eerie look at Io, the most volcanic world ... Juno also captured photographs of Io, which revealed that a large dark patch has emerged on the moon's surface. This ...