The Io–Jupiter system is similar, in scale, to an exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf, and if volcanic Io doesn't have a magma ocean then perhaps exoplanets on close orbits around M-dwarfs don't either.

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky world, discovered in 1610 by Italian Renaissance man Galileo Galilei, has ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter for more than ... the JIRAM infrared imager designed to explore Jupiter's cloud structure. Io's southern volcanic rift covers roughly 40,000 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Israeli astronomers report the detection of a new Jupiter-like exoplanet using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet ...

Juno came within about 930 miles of the surface of Io (Picture: Rex) Juno has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, after taking five years to make the 2.8billion km journey from Earth, and has been ...

Glimpses of a Volcanic World: New Telescope Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Rival Those from Spacecraft ... an extraordinarily low-density giant planet orbiting a distant Sun-like ...

In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The ...