"Io represented a big mystery because its surface doesn't hold a record of its history the way that the surfaces of less active moons do." The solar system's most volcanic body, the Jupiter moon ...
Io is the most volcanic body known to science, and researchers have puzzled over its history for years. A new report suggests it was born this way. This image revealing the north polar region of ...
Close flybys of Io, one of Jupiter's moons and the most volcanically active world in our solar system, have revealed a lava lake and a towering feature called "Steeple Mountain" on the moon's ...
New research is revealing the secrets of Io, the mysterious volcanic moon of Jupiter. Four centuries after Galileo discovered Io in 1610, NASA sent a spacecraft called Juno on a five-year mission ...
US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter's icy moons as part of humanity's hunt for extra-terrestrial life. The Clipper spacecraft is ...
A 4-billion-year-old volcano? New research finds that Io, the solar system’s most volcanically active moon, can brag just that. A recent study of Io’s sulfurous atmosphere suggests that ...
Revealing Io's mysteries Io, first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, is just slightly larger than our moon, but it's unlike anywhere else in the solar system. The rocky moon's surface is ...