The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Io has since become one of the most fascinating objects in planetary science. Orbiting just 350,000 km above Jupiter, Io experiences gravitational forces 300% stronger ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

According to a JWST team statement, particles ejected from volcanoes on the gas giant's hellish moon Io can undergo that same process. Jupiter's auroras have another key difference than those on ...

Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter's super volcanic moon Io ...

Io is an infamous world teeming with violent volcanoes spewing particles that can escape the moon's gravity and sneak into Jupiter's orbit. As Jupiter captures all of the charged particles ...

Image Credit: ESA/Webb With such awesome power, Jupiter's magnetosphere effortlessly pulls in and traps charged particles from not just the Sun, but from its volcanic moon Io. Io's frequent ...

They recently applied a similar technique to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, revealing that the fiery moon is unlikely to possess a global magma ocean. “Gravity is a unique and fundamental ...

Park and his team recently applied a similar technique to Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, using data acquired by NASA's Juno and Galileo spacecraft during their flybys of the Jovian satellite as well ...