NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...

With the upcoming Artemis 2 mission taking astronauts around the moon ... years. Lake Hillier, located on Middle Island, ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. The gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

which leads to the moon being relentlessly squeezed. The result: immense energy from frictional heating that melts portions of Io’s interior, resulting in a seemingly endless series of lava ...

across that formed long ago when lunar lava filled a then fresh impact crater. The area is thought to better represent the moon’s average composition than the Apollo landing sites. Blue Ghost ...

One week after its launch, here's everything to know about Firefly's lunar lander, Blue Ghost, which could become the second American craft to land on the moon in five decades. The lander ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost spacecraft ... journey to the Moon, both landers will be targeting lunar mares—flat, dark plains formed by ancient impacts that were later flooded with lava and other ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:11 a.m. Eastern time, carrying the Blue ... moon. This mission is headed to Mare Crisium, a flat plain formed ...