Something incredible just happened in our own cosmic backyard. For the first time from Earth, scientists have watched as a ...

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 ...

On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a moon of Jupiter, in one of the photos from Voyager 1. She wrote, “I could feel tears begin to roll down my face at the sight ...

“We can see that this body is completely covered with volcanoes over both poles and all across its middle, (which are) constantly going off.” The new data suggests that Io’s numerous ...

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 ...

Io's surface is peppered with hundreds of volcanoes, some spewing sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles high. The volcanic moon is Jupiter's third-largest and the innermost Galilean satellite ...

Recent strange activity around Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, confused and excited scientists. By Oliver Whang Io, the third largest of Jupiter’s moons, is caught in a pressurized, explosive dance.

"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 Juno spacecraft ended 2023 with a close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io, which could be 100 times more volcanic than Earth. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 2, 2024 11:00 AM EST Get the Popular ...

Why it's so special: NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured the closest views of Io since NASA's Galileo spacecraft imaged the volcanic world in 2001. Passing within just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers ...

This theory dovetails neatly with several observations, including ones showing a roughly uniform distribution of Io’s volcanoes, which seem to be tapping the same omnipresent, hellish source of melt.

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body in our solar system. As demonstrated by explosive news from NASA on ...