Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration shows NASA's Juno spacecraft as it makes a flyby of the Jovian moon Io. NASA's Juno mission will come closer to ...

NASA’s Juno mission is best known for the gorgeous images of Jupiter that it has taken since its launch in 2011 and arrival at Jupiter in 2016. But the spacecraft hasn’t only investigated the planet — ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently spotted a glassy-smooth lava lake amid the volcanic hellscape of Jupiter’s moon Io. When Juno’s orbit swooped past Io last December, its cameras captured a mirrorlike ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. An image of Jupiter and Io as seen by NASA's Juno on August ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A yellowish moon dotted with craters, with an inset image showing a gas plume escaping its surface. NASA's Juno spacecraft has ...

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captured this enhanced-color view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant ...

On December 30, 2023, NASA's Juno deep space probe made the closest flyby of Jupiter's moon Io in over two decades. The robotic spacecraft passed within 930 miles (1,500 km) of the volcanic satellite, ...

NASA has released a high-resolution image taken by the Juno deep space probe during its close encounter with Jupiter's moon Io on December 30, 2023. The image of the volcanic satellite not only shows ...

A team of space scientists has captured new images of a volcanic plume on Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s 17th flyby of the gas giant. On Dec. 21, during winter solstice, four of Juno’s ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to make a historic close flyby of Jupiter's moon Io on December 30, marking the nearest approach to the volcanic moon in over two decades. Coming within approximately 930 ...

NASA's Juno mission obtained a visible-light image of two possible volcanic plumes on Jupiter's moon Io during a February 3rd flyby, at a closest approach of 930 miles (1,500 km). This was Juno's ...

The last time a spacecraft got this close to Jupiter’s moon Io was more than 20 years ago, a blink of an eye on a typical geological timescale. Most planetary bodies in our Solar System wouldn’t ...