Take a captivating journey with an animated tour of Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, crafted from NASA’s Juno mission data. This stunning visualization reveals Io’s dramatic volcanic plumes, glowing ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...

Last year saw the launch of a European probe called the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE). It will likewise examine Europa, ...

Both the peak of the Geminid meteor and the final full moon of the year, the Cold Moon, coincide in the night skies. Take a ...

German astronomer Simon Marius is best remembered for his disputes with Galileo Galilei over priority for discovering Jupiter ...

Io's volcanic activity explained without magma ocean evidence Tidal heating powers volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon ...

NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...

A Cold Moon hangs in the sky while Jupiter still shines bright and the Geminid meteor shower peaks in the sky this week.

Hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io are likely powered in the same way as Earth’s volcanoes.

As many as 400 volcanoes are erupting on the surface of Jupiter's innermost moon Io, with virtually every square inch of the ...