The Juno mission has discovered remarkably strong activity on Jupiter's moon, Io. The hot spot emits eruptions with energy ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Other large eruptions on Io have created varied features, such as pyroclastic deposits (composed of rock fragments spewed out by a volcano), small lava flows that may be fed by fissures, and ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.

NASA’s Juno discovered a massive volcanic eruption on Io, hotter than anything seen before. This event, powered by Jupiter’s ...

A massive hotspot - larger the Earth's Lake Superior - can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated image taken by ...

Io is volcanic because of the gravitational pull ... “We interpret the changes as dark lava deposits and white sulfur dioxide deposits originating from an eruption at Pillan Patera, which ...

Some scientists are concerned that cuts to human-induced sulfur emissions may actually be warming the Earth. The G.G. Allen Steam Plant features a large scrubber to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions ...