NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself. New research suggests that the moon's orbit could ...

Five volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io erupted simultaneously, spewing a mind-boggling amount of lava onto the surface and ...

A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast. Io ...

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

How big can volcanic eruptions get on Jupiter’s moon, Io? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address as an international team of scientists ...

A celestial conjunction event featuring Venus and Spica is anticipated for November 3. Jupiter is expected to display a multi-phase transit phenomenon involving Io and its shadow, along with Europa's ...

Remember that old sci-fi story, "A Pail of Air" by Fritz Leiber, where the Earth got stolen away from Sol by a dead star whizzing through, and the Earth's whole atmosphere snowed out of the sky?

This first-ever complete map of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io released on March 19, 2012, was created using data and images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, (which studied Jupiter and its moons between ...

Io transits Jupiter, showing us how quickly our view can change — now that we are a few days past opposition, the moon and its shadow won’t quite overlap, but instead Io’s shadow will now trail it ...