Over the course of the next year and a half, the Juno spacecraft will carry out a total of nine flybys of Io. Two of the close encounters will take the probe to within 930 miles of the moon's surface.

Jupiter’s third-largest moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. New radio images by the ALMA telescope array show the direct effect of this volcanic activity on the ...

Jupiter, the giant of our Solar System, remains one of the most fascinating and mysterious planets to explore. With its ...

Jupiter sets record after 12 new moons discovered 00:14. A NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to Jupiter's moon Io, coming within 930 miles of the "surface of the most volcanic world ...

In anticipation of capturing new Io views, NASA released a spectacular infrared image of Io that Juno snapped back in July from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers).

The Io–Jupiter system is similar, in scale, to an exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf, and if volcanic Io doesn't have a magma ocean then perhaps exoplanets on close orbits around M-dwarfs don't either.

Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet Not only was the hot spot larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also was seen belching out ...

Jupiter's moon Io has a huge underground reserve of molten rock helps explain why it's the most volcanically active object in the solar system, spewing out 100 times more lava than all of Earth's ...

Jupiter might be the largest, most eye-catching planet in our Solar System, but the planet itself isn’t the only interesting thing in its neighborhood. Jupiter’s … ...

Io wouldn’t be home to intelligent alien life, as you might think of it, but it is still alien life, which makes this possibility exciting for many those taking part in the search for alien life ...