Coming eerily close to the moon, the small spacecraft was able to capture images of twin volcanic plumes on Io’s surface, sending material erupting into space. This new flyby was only the second ...

and volcanic-plume deposits rich in sulfur and sulfur dioxide. Juno will use an upcoming, more distant flyby of Io on March 3 to look at the hot spot again and search for changes in the landscape.

The Alaskan Volcano Observatory has shared new images of plumes of gas streaming out of Mount Spurr, which scientists suspect ...

These alterations indicate freshly deposited lava and sulfur-rich volcanic plumes. The sheer power of the eruption suggests a deep-seated instability in Io’s magma reservoirs. This could mean ...

It caused a roughly 16,000 meter-high volcanic plume. A major eruption can trigger a tsunami by causing changes in atmospheric pressure. The agency says that such an eruption could have set off ...

Similar in size to Earth’s moon, Io has an estimated 400 volcanoes that continuously release plumes and lava that coat that ...

A volcano in Ethiopia is spewing unusually large volumes of methane from its crater, according to satellite measurements of the potent greenhouse gas. This comes after hundreds of earthquakes have ...

The 3-D illustration shows the so-called mantle plume feeding the super volcano which forced the plates apart. The arrows indicate the different movements. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Before then, the volcano's most recent major eruptions were in 2016, 2014, 2007 and 2003. In the past, researchers also sighted ephemeral islands up to half a mile (1 km) wide being birthed by the ...

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