NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

Immense energy from frictional heating on Io melts portions of its interior, resulting in a seemingly endless series of lava ...

Io is only around the size of our own Moon, but you’d be much less likely ... series of lava plumes and ash venting into its atmosphere from the estimated 400 volcanoes that riddle its surface ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

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

A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar system, coming from a giant underground magma chamber on the "tormented" Jovian ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...