As the BBC's recent video "Jupiter's moon, Io – the most volcanic ... the otherworldly nature of Io's surface, the video ...

It’s been imaged by spacecraft—notably by NASA’s Juno in recent months—but this is the best-ever image using an Earth-based instrument. Jupiter moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on Jan. 10 ...

This month, it was the turn of Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s four giant Galilean moons. About the same diameter as Earth’s moon, Io is covered in volcanoes, some emitting sulfurous plumes ...

In size, Io is roughly comparable to the Earth’s moon, also known as “The Moon”. Io is wracked by volcanic activity though, with active lava flows on the surface, with mountain ranges and ...

This sulfurous deposit is a common feature of Io's volcanic activity, giving certain regions of the moon their distinctive ..

The Beaver Moon will reach peak illumination at 4:28 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, according to Space.com. More a popular term than a ...

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The surface of Io, one of Jupiter's many moons, is an especially hostile environment – even for space. Scientists recently observed its atmosphere completely ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

This artist’s concept depicts a potential volcanic moon between the exoplanet WASP-49 b, left, and its parent star. New evidence indicating that a massive sodium cloud observed near WASP-49 b is ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...