At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant's volcanic ...

One of the big surprises: Despite the moon's cooled crust, the data shows Io maintains liquid hot lava just below the ground.

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the ... melting rock to create a magma layer that erupts to the surface. The new research suggests that the ...

NASA’s Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter’s cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its fiery moon, Io. Not only has the data helped develop a new model to better ...

Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into ...

While our moon is relatively calm ... NASA's Juno mission gets look under surface of Jupiter, Io Years of data from NASA's Juno mission has provided scientists with a trove of information about ...