Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

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 ...

Only in the 1990s was the first planet outside our solar system discovered. Since then, many extreme and bizarre planets have been discovered in faraway galaxies. For instance, there’s an ...

In our top science stories this week, reporter Ed Cara explores the similarities and differences between today’s popular obesity drugs and fen-phen, a briefly trendy weight loss aid that was ...

Launched in December 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s most powerful telescope and is set to make huge waves in the study of astronomy. Not only will it study galaxies and ...