But the spacecraft hasn’t only investigated the planet — it has also studied ... showing what it would look like to fly over this lava lake. Looking Into Io’s Loki Patera (Artist’s Concept ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nasa has released a new animation of a giant lava lake discovered on Io's surface. Io has long been known to be volcanically active, but new research suggests that Jupiter's moon has been spewing ...

NASA confirmed that a chunk of debris that crashed into a Florida home came from a battery pallet ejected from the ISS, and archaeologists found evidence that humans used a lava tube as a shelter ...

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 ...