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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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’s volcanism is mainly driven by tidal heating, while Earth’s volcanism is driven by internal heat. Aside from this, the volcanic processes are fairly similar. However, Io has more energy to get rid ...