As bristling with volcanoes as a porcupine with quills, Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. At any given time, around 150 of the 400 or so active volcanoes ...

NASA's Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter's cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its fiery moon, Io. Not only has the data helped develop a new model to ...

Lava lakes on Io's surface had previously been found in a few locations, such as the 127-mile-long lake Loki Patera. This study reveals that these lakes are extremely common on the moon, and the ...

The agency has scheduled another close flyby of Io for Feb. 3, when Juno is again expected to pass at about the same distance from the moon's surface as it did Saturday. Juno's mission is set to ...

The surface temperature is a frigid 250 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but Io’s volcanic eruptions produce extremely hot lavas that could be as high as 3,000 degrees (much hotter than we see ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

The volcano-laced surface of Jupiter’s moon Io was captured in infrared by the Juno spacecraft’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) imager as it flew by at a distance of was about 50,000 ...

Io is the most volcanic world in the solar system; its surface is peppered with hundreds of volcanoes, some spewing sulfurous plumes hundreds of miles high, according to Live Science's sister site ...

The volcanic surface of Jupiter's huge moon Io got a stunning close-up thanks to NASA's Juno mission. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Io is Juno’s home base for the next year and a half. Just a few days ago, on December 15, Juno initiated the first of nine flybys, some of which will bring the orbiter closer than a thousand ...

The volcanic moon, which orbits the gas giant Jupiter, has long been written off as a possible home for alien life, as its extreme temperature and lava-covered surface make it wholly inhabitable ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system. CNN values your feedback 1.