NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

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 ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

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The rest is lighter in color and marked by grooved ... 2022 when the probe settles in for a close-up look at Jupiter's moon, Europa, with a flyby of the moon Io to follow a year later.

A total eclipse of the Moon is the highlight of this month, visible across North and South America. Venus remains very bright ...