Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in early 2024, a Southwest Research Institute-led team identified electrons with ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than expected if a magma ocean were present. Instead, Io’s mantle appears mostly ...

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of erupting volcanoes. High-resolution images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers ...

The solar system is home to bizarre moons like Enceladus and Callisto, each unveiling nature’s wonders and some of science’s ...

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

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Swing binoculars to the Moon and scan 4.5° south to spot ... Meanwhile, watch Io disappear behind Jupiter’s western limb shortly after 10:50 p.m. EDT. Ganymede ends its transit around midnight ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...