What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Several moons across the Solar System also feature volcanic mysteries. Ancient volcanic activity shaped the lunar crust of Earth’s own Moon — lunar maria, basaltic plains visible on the Moon, are the ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to huge heights.

Preliminary analyses revealed distinct differences in density, structure, and chemical composition between the Chang'e 6 ...

The astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 lunar mission became the first humans to directly view the far side of the moon during ...

A waxing Moon brightens the sky as we catch our last looks at Uranus and view Venus, Mercury, Jupiter, and Mars in the sky ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

An enigmatic Japanese billionaire picked 10 artists to fly to the moon, only to pull the plug. Now they’re figuring out ...

For example, one X user posted ( archived) the image with the caption, "An actual mountain on Jupiter's moon Io." Other users ...

Once home to a thriving Jewish majority, Thessaloniki holds fragments of a lost world. One traveller's journey to find them ...