New data from the agency's Jovian orbiter sheds light on the fierce winds and cyclones of the gas giant's northern reaches and volcanic action on its fiery moon. NASA's Juno mission has gathered ...

Here’s how it works. Io — Jupiter's fifth moon — is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Io's surface is peppered with hundreds of volcanoes, some spewing sulfurous plumes ...

with the gravitational push and pull exerted by Jupiter and the other moons generating friction and heat deep inside Io. Lava lakes on Io's surface had previously been found in a few locations ...

The forces exerted on Io by Jupiter, Europa and Ganymede cause Io’s surface to face a tremendous amount of heat, which is why the moon’s subsurface remains like liquid rock. Researchers ...

The most volcanically active world in the solar system, Jupiter's moon Io, may possess a global ocean of magma underneath its surface, as well as mysteriously warm poles, a new study finds.

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the moon covered in lava plains. The erupting lava (molten rock that ...

And then there’s Jupiter’s moon ... and photographed ginormous plumes of volcanic matter rising above Io’s surface, and an independent team of scientists calculated that Io may possess ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing ...

There are new, high-quality images of Jupiter's moon ... which had been slated to fly roughly 930 miles from the surface of Io, the agency said. The photos of a silhouetted, dusty red sphere ...

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 ...