A thermal image of Io taken on December 25, 2015 that shows the moon\'s most powerful volcano, Loki Patera, as well as the hot spot Amaterasu Patera erupting at the same time.

Jupiter's moon Io is the solar system's most volcanic body thanks to a gravitational tug of war that rages below its surface. But now scientists know the violent moon has always been this way.

Jupiter’s third-largest moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. New radio images by the ALMA telescope array show the direct effect of this volcanic activity on the ...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active planetary body in the solar system.Amidst its hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes, scientists now believe they've encountered a powerful type of ...

But Io is different, with volcanic eruptions regularly remaking parts of the moon's crust. That means there's a good chance something on Io has changed since NASA's Galileo orbiter last ...

Because Io is so close to its massive host planet, the moon is subjected to a tremendous gravitational pull as it orbits ...

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 moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet Not only was the hot spot larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also was seen belching out ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has a total of 92 moons. Io is only slightly larger than Earth's moon and the fourth-largest moon in the solar system.

Like the offset eyes on a Picasso portrait, the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io seem to be strangely shifted, according to a study by NASA and ESA scientists. Io’s clustered volcanoes seem to ...

The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023.