On Earth the aurora is intimately connected to solar activity. High speed electrons and protons from the sun find their way into the upper atmosphere by following invisible lines of magnetic force ...

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It's a world home to gigantic storms bigger than Australia, 100-mph winds pummeling its northern reaches and a rocky moon riddled with lava-spewing volcanoes. Welcome to Jupiter. NASA scientists have ...

Comparison with Galileo data reveals huge new volcano and lava flows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Researchers have spotted a ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to ...

Change can be scary. Luckily, nobody is particularly close to a very big change on Jupiter’s moon Io, where a massive new volcano has been spotted in a previously flat area. The volcano has multiple ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, is exhibiting geothermal activity far beyond what scientists had anticipated, with heat levels that defy previous models. This extreme thermal activity is driven by the ...

This first-ever complete map of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io released on March 19, 2012, was created using data and images from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, (which studied Jupiter and its moons between ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Io, the innermost giant moon of Jupiter, may not have a ...

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"Tidal heating plays an important role in the heating and orbital evolution of celestial bodies," said Alex Hayes, professor of astronomy. "It provides the warmth necessary to form and sustain ...