The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts of magmatic matter rocketed into ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

A pair of groundbreaking NASA studies, published in Nature, have unveiled new insights into the interiors of the Moon and the ...

Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The ...

Analyzing gravity data collected by spacecraft orbiting other worlds reveals groundbreaking insights about planetary ...

This was the company's second attempt to land on the Moon, with both missions having toppled over on the lunar surface.

NASA’s Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter’s cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its ...

NASA scientists said Wednesday that they’ve unearthed new secrets about the moon. Specifically, they’ve gotten a better look at the celestial body’s interior by analyzing gravity data collected from ...

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the ... melting rock to create a magma layer that erupts to the surface. The new research suggests that the ...

While our moon is relatively calm ... NASA's Juno mission gets look under surface of Jupiter, Io Years of data from NASA's Juno mission has provided scientists with a trove of information about ...