Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of erupting volcanoes. High-resolution images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers ...

This striking, false-color satellite image shows the intense heat coming from a pair of lava lakes that emerged on simultaneously erupting volcanoes in Congo. The neighboring peaks are among Africa's ...

NASA just released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. Released by the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab last week, the generated ...

NASA's Juno mission might have originally been all about Jupiter, but its extended mission has the spacecraft observing the gas giant's moons — and it's making some pretty interesting discoveries. Its ...

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NASA's Juno spacecraft saw molten rock—and a mountain straight out of Star Wars —on Jupiter's moon Io. Reading time 2 minutes Two recent flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed ...

This striking, false-color satellite image shows the intense heat coming from a pair of lava lakes that emerged on simultaneously erupting volcanoes in Congo. The neighboring peaks are among Africa's ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently spotted a glassy-smooth lava lake amid the volcanic hellscape of Jupiter’s moon Io. When Juno’s orbit swooped past Io last December, its cameras captured a mirrorlike ...

The volcano on Hawaii's Big Island began erupting more than a week ago and lava continues to flow, creating a huge new lake that's taken the place... On Hawaii's Big Island, Kilauea volcano erupted ...

Infrared mapping tech aboard the spacecraft sheds light on the volcanic activity of Io, Jupiter's second-smallest Galilean moon Reading time 2 minutes It’s not a big moon relative to a few of its ...

New infrared images showcase "fire-breathing" lakes all across the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...