In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft found Io’s surface is as smooth as glass, just like volcanically created obsidian glass ...

Data received from NASA's Juno mission indicates the solar-powered spacecraft went into safe mode twice on April 4 while the ...

(CNN) -- The most famous storm on Jupiter faces the moon Io in a new close-up image taken by a NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The probe also beamed back a high-resolution video of swirling clouds on ...

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 ...

Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...