"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

A new volcanic hotspot on Jupiter’s moon Io has been detected, releasing six times Earth’s total energy output.

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ... However, the spacecraft was too far away during the recent flyby to capture detailed images of the ...

This week, NASA released ... for the long trek to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. As such, onboard are a pair of small cameras called star trackers, which capture the images for the ultimate star ...

The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to NASA scientists intent on learning more about the innermost and third-largest of Jupiter ... the third and most recent flyby, Juno will use ...