What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

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Io isn’t just another moon, it’s the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system. Orbiting Jupiter, Io is ...

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NASA unveiled a new discovery inside our solar system. We had only seen these big lakes filled with water on Earth - but this ...

When I see planets in the night sky, I think of them as old friends. I know, I know — I need to get out more, but my oldest ...

NASA’s Juno Mission will soon be coming to an end. Launched in 2011, the four-ton probe and its wide solar arrays arrived at Jupiter in 2016. Its mission? Look beneath the dense, forbidding clouds of ...

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New measurements have revealed that Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — is actually smaller and more flattened ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted again this week, spewing lava 500 feet into the air from the crater at its summit, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The eruption ended around 8 p.m. local time on ...

MANILA, Philippines — A minor phreatic eruption occurred at Taal Volcano in Batangas yesterday afternoon, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. Phivolcs said the ...