A NASA spacecraft is set to swing past one of Jupiter’s moons Thursday, giving astronomers a close-up view of one of the most volcanic spots in the solar system. The Juno probe, which has been ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to ...

A NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to Jupiter's moon Io, coming within 930 miles of the "surface of the most volcanic world," and the space agency released new images of the flyby. The ...

Jupiter's moon Io may host alien life in protected lava tubes. Now, Avi Loeb claims the anomalous interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, potentially a mothership, is maneuvering directly toward the Jovian ...

Signs of volcanoes abound in new images of Io, the most active moon in our solar system. But the moon wasn’t always famous for its plumes and lava lakes. Sam Walters is the associate editor at ...

Newfound glowing spots on Jupiter seem unexpectedly to come from electron beams whipping around the giant planet's volcanic moon Io. Io is the most volcanic body in the solar system, with its entire ...

A global "ocean" of molten rock sloshes beneath the surface of Jupiter's moon Io, feeding the fiery satellite's prolific volcanism, a new study finds. Unlike Earth's magma, which tends to cluster in ...

Io is probably one of the most well-known moons in the solar system. Orbiting 422,000 kilometers above Jupiter, Io is the innermost of the four Galilean moons. Io, along with the other three Galilean ...

The last time a spacecraft got this close to Jupiter's moon Io was more than 20 years ago, a blink of an eye on a typical geological timescale. Most planetary bodies in our Solar System wouldn't ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Jupiter's active moon Io has a collapsible atmosphere: New views show the satellite's shroud of ...

Jupiter’s third-largest moon Io is covered by more than 400 active volcanoes, and it’s the most volcanically active world in our solar system. New radio images collected by an array of telescopes on ...

Jupiter's third-largest moon, Io, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, as confirmed by the longest-running observations of the moon's thermal output. The regular eruptions and ...