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

Discovered by Galileo in 1610, Io has since become one of the most fascinating objects in planetary science. Orbiting just ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

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

Just as the moon can dictate tides on Earth, the Earth exerts a gravitational ... including Jupiter’s Io (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) With the help of a supercomputer, the study’s authors ...

this work has delivered new insights into Earth, Mars, Venus, Mercury, and the moons of the gas giants. Just a few months ago, observations from Juno revealed that the volcanic moon Io might be ...

On Earth, these are known as the northern lights ... charged particles from not only the sun, but its orbiting moon Io. Io is an infamous world teeming with violent volcanoes spewing particles ...

On Earth, when solar storms occur ... particles that are tossed into space by the gas giant's moon, Io, and particles released by the sun, which then causes the auroras, according to NASA.

Scientists have uncovered fascinating new details about the internal structures of both the moon and the asteroid Vesta using ...