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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The spacecraft completed two very close flybys in 2023 and 2024, passing within 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of Io's surface. Its more recent visits have been at a much higher altitude of 46,200 ...

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 ...

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.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in this area are chucking out six times the energy being produced by all ...