Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

Using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft, scientists have discovered that the solar system's most volcanic body is even hotter ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can be. Its surface glows with ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, is exhibiting geothermal activity far beyond what scientists had anticipated, with heat levels ...

Unlike any other moon, Io is locked in a gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and its neighboring moons, stretching and ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and compressed. Heat generated by these contortions has melted pockets of the moon's ...

Io, moon of Jespiter Jupiter, is famously volcanically active. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, over an area the size of Asia. Some of the volcanic mountains are taller than Mount Everest.

Researchers have found Saturn’s moon Enceladus has heat circulating beneath its icy crust, meaning the chemistry of biology ...

This global view of Jupiter's moon, Io, was obtained during the tenth orbit of Jupiter by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Io, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was built with a flaw, and because it's a million miles away, we can't repair it, but we can ...

More than 200 known moons orbit bodies in the Solar System, and for most of these moons, size, composition, and origin vary extensively. Some of the Solar System’s moons even rival the smallest ...