Something incredible just happened in our own cosmic backyard. For the first time from Earth, scientists have watched as a ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground.

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the moon covered in lava plains. The erupting lava (molten rock that ...

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 ...

New data from the agency's Jovian orbiter sheds light on the fierce winds and cyclones of the gas giant's northern reaches and volcanic action on its fiery moon. NASA's Juno mission has gathered ...

Here’s how it works. Io — Jupiter's fifth moon — is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Io's surface is peppered with hundreds of volcanoes, some spewing sulfurous plumes ...

with the gravitational push and pull exerted by Jupiter and the other moons generating friction and heat deep inside Io. Lava lakes on Io's surface had previously been found in a few locations ...

No moon in our solar system is likely as chaotic as Io, Jupiter’s third largest. The rocky body looks like a pepperoni pizza because of the constant, numerous eruptions on its surface.

The volcanic moon, which orbits the gas giant Jupiter, has long been ... good look at the planet’s bright surface. Most of the information we have about Io is old, dating back to when the ...

NASA reveals 'glass-smooth lake of cooling lava' on surface of Jupiter's moon Io "It's kind of a competition between the Pillan eruption and the Pele eruption, how much and how fast each deposits ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into ...