The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

This theory dovetails neatly with several observations, including ones showing a roughly uniform distribution of Io’s volcanoes, which seem to be tapping the same omnipresent, hellish source of melt.

Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Jackie Branc (CC BY) A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant's volcanic ...

New data from the orbiter has unveiled some of the treacherous conditions of not only Jupiter, but its moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. The findings, which come after Juno has ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

Some are monumental. On Mars the dead volcano Olympus Mons rises 17 miles above what would be sea level. Even more exciting is the Jovian moon Io, the Galilean moon closest to the giant planet.

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system , a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth .

A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath the surface of the gas giant's volcanic moon, Io, and into the world of cyclones playing bumper cars at the north ...