NASA's Juno spacecraft was dispatched on a mission in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter. It has beamed back some truly stunning images and valuable data on the solar system's largest planet.

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The surface of Io, one of Jupiter's many moons, is an especially hostile environment – even for space. Scientists recently observed its atmosphere completely ...

These lakes are far larger than their analogs on Earth, and their structure sheds light on how magma moves beneath the surface of Io. Io’s volcanism — probably present over the moon’s entire ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Nasa has released a new animation of a giant lava lake discovered on Io's surface. Io has long been known to be volcanically active, but new research suggests that Jupiter's moon has been spewing ...

"These energized electrons then interact with Io's atmosphere and surface, ionizing and exciting atoms and molecules and even creating aurora." In the 1990s, NASA's Galileo mission discovered the ...