Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Jupiter has 95 known moons and many moonlets, which are believed to have been created as the CPD coalesced and broke apart. But how that process came about and evolved is still mostly a mystery.

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...

In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point of interest on Jupiter's moon Io. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The European Space Agency is preparing a spacecraft to embark on an eight-year-long ...

which has been exploring Jupiter and its moons since 2016. They traced the cause of this sudden heat displacement to a dense burst of solar wind that compressed Jupiter's enormous magnetosphere ...

They weren't a priority at launch, but now Nasa's Juno probe is flying by Jupiter's major moons. The spacecraft has had recent close approaches with Ganymede and Europa and is now bearing down on Io.

Two very close recent flybys of Io by the Juno spacecraft have revealed more detail about the most volcanic world in the solar system - Jupiter's mysterious moon, Io. Nasa has released a new ...