Astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University, the Observatoire de Paris, and other institutions have solved a nearly 30-year-old mystery surrounding Jupiter’s moon Io, showing that volcanoes there ...

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 to ...

A NASA spacecraft is set to swing past one of Jupiter’s moons Thursday, giving astronomers a close-up view of one of the most volcanic spots in the solar system. The Juno probe, which has been ...

NASA is unraveling Io's volcanic secrets. The space agency's Juno spacecraft has been swooping progressively closer to Jupiter's profoundly volcanic moon Io, and its observations reveal the full scope ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. NASA’s Juno conducted its 58th close encounter with ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft's mission to Jupiter has set its sights on the moon Io. The agency said in a release, sharing a striking image of the moon's volcano-laced surface captured in the infrared by ...

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," and the space agency released new images of the flyby. The ...

Recent strange activity around Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, confused and excited scientists. By Oliver Whang Io, the third largest of Jupiter’s moons, is caught in a pressurized, explosive dance.