Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically ... images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers report in the February Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. These lakes are far larger ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The region is located within Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide basin in the northeast quadrant of the moon's near side, that is believed to have been created by early volcanic eruptions and flooded with ...

Lava would erupt from their center ... The combined pull of the planet and the original moon would also yank on the second moon. The second moon would be caught in a tug of war between Earth ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

Jupiter's moon Io erupts lava material into space while Saturn's Enceladus ejects geysers. Both types of material contribute to the two planets' auroras, and that's what could be happening with ...

The red planet While we don’t have images ... extinct volcanoes, and lava flows, the surface of the moon is eerily photogenic when shot close up, as seen here. Many of the craters, including ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.