The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Even though Jupiter (and Io) are both far from the sun ... side of the mountain in detail while the other side remains in shadow, as Juno only observed one side of the mountain illuminated ...

A total eclipse of the Moon is the highlight of this month, visible across North and South America. Venus remains very bright ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

These pinpricks of light are actually Jupiter's four largest moons, now known as the Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Many of these celestial orbs are as remarkable as Jupiter ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io is transiting the planet’s disk tonight, accompanied by its shadow. To start, find Jupiter high in the south an hour after sunset, embedded within Taurus the Bull.

For the first week of March, Venus will dive down to the right as it heads between us and the Sun but Mercury will be due ...