The moon was last observed up close by NASA’s Galileo mission, which studied it in the late 1990s. NASA’s Juno is currently ...

Tidal friction from massive Jupiter, and some from its fellow moon Europa, is dissipated as orbital and heat energy in Io. In ...

Europa was first discovered in 1610 by Florentine astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei. Using a homemade ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The images of the new volcano were taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft and its JunoCam as it made a flyby of Io — the solar ...

NASA's Juno mission reveals a massive new volcano on Jupiter's moon Io, showcasing its dynamic volcanic activity.

Ganymede, Callisto, Io, and Europa—their unique features, and their potential to reveal extraterrestrial life.

Only two spacecraft have orbited Jupiter: the Galileo probe, which studied the gas giant between 1995 and 2003, and Juno, which has been circling the planet since 2016. The Galileo mission found ...

Recent analysis of JunoCam images has revealed a new, large volcanic formation on Io, showcasing significant geological ...

including Galileo, Voyager 1, Cassini, New Horizons, and Juno, NASA's current mission to Jupiter. But Io is intriguing and unique, and it can teach us a lot. Planetary scientists want to know more ...

The Federal Aviation Administration charged on Tuesday that SpaceX failed to comply with two of its regulations during two ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected a large new active volcano on Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the ...