Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking image of Io, one of Jupiter’s most volatile moons, captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby on December 30, 2023. The detailed imagery provides an ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...

After nearly 10 years, NASA’s Jupiter explorer Juno is likely no longer operating with its latest mission extension ending during the ongoing U.S. government shutdown.

Jupiter's moon Io would be a terrible place to visit, with active volcanoes and planes of sulfur-dioxide frost. Of course, that distinctive environment is also what makes it so interesting to study.

LOS ANGELES - Since 1989, the camera on NASA's Galileo spacecraft has captured a comet slamming into Jupiter, volcanoes erupting on one of its moons and the first known moon orbiting an asteroid. On ...