A NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar ...

Since the late 1970s, scientists have believed that Io could have an ocean of lava hidden beneath its surface, causing much of the Jovian moon's surface-level volcanic activity. However, a new study ...

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In 1979, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist Linda Morabito discovered volcanic activity on Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io. But Io isn’t just volcanically active—it is the most volcanically ...

A group of swirling storms at Jupiter's north pole are bouncing off each other, like bumper cars at the fairground. A flurry of new discoveries from NASA's Juno mission Jupiter have taken us beneath ...