NASA’s Juno mission is best known for the gorgeous images of Jupiter that it has taken since its launch in 2011 and arrival at Jupiter in 2016. But the spacecraft hasn’t only investigated the planet — ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft began its scientific operations looping around the gas giant Jupiter, providing the most stunning images yet of the solar system's largest planet. But that was in 2016—Juno is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A yellowish moon dotted with craters, with an inset image showing a gas plume escaping its surface. NASA's Juno spacecraft has ...

The Juno spacecraft has revealed some fascinating things about Jupiter since it began exploring the system on July 4th, 2016. Not only is it the first robotic mission to study Jupiter up close while ...

A new view of Io captured by NASA's Juno probe. Credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos CC BY 3.0 Unported NASA's Juno probe, exploring worlds hundreds of millions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juno reveals 'smooth as glass' lava lake on Jupiter's moon, Io ![Loki Patera Lava Lake Glassy ...

NASA's spacecraft had another close encounter with Io, revealing what appear to be two volcanic plumes erupting simultaneously from its surface. Reading time 2 minutes NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured ...

Last weekend, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew over the southern hemisphere of Jupiter’s moon Io. The close flyby brought Juno within 930 miles of the sulfur-shrouded hellscape of volcanoes and lava lakes ...

NASA’s Juno mission captured a marvelous image of volcanic activity during its second flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on Feb. 3. The spacecraft snapped the image of two plumes with its visible-light camera ...

A team of space scientists has captured new images of a volcanic plume on Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s 17th flyby of the gas giant. On Dec. 21, during winter solstice, four of Juno’s ...

The Jovian moon Io has more than 400 active volcanoes, but the latest discovery is the largest of them all. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme. Scientists with NASA's Juno mission have discovered a volcanic ...