Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

Understanding chorus waves is vital, as they create fast-moving, highly energetic electrons (known as killer electrons) that ...

A massive hotspot - larger the Earth's Lake Superior - can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated ...

Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

The Planet Parade of 2025 is a truly extraordinary celestial event that has stargazers excited. From January 21 to ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The first full moon of 2025 is the called the Wolf Moon. It will be rising into the night sky this week.

while the largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, is around 1/28 the size of its parent planet, Jupiter. That means that the prevailing theory of the formation of the Pluto and Charon system ...