NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

Io's volcanic activity explained without magma ocean evidence Tidal heating powers volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon ...

NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...

According to NASA, on Oct. 14, 2024, the Europa Clipper was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launched in ...

Scientists with NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are each likely powered by their own chamber of roiling hot magma rather than an ocean of magma.

Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.

New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...

Hubble’s OPAL program tracks Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Seasonal and atmospheric changes revealed over a decade Key insights into gas giants’ weather systems shared by NASA ...

Researchers have detected a giant tail of gas leaking from an exoplanet near Earth. The giant structure, which is up to ...

For two decades now, the iconic twin Voyager spacecraft have been quietly overturning everything we thought we knew about the ...

Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely ...

The north polar region of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io was captured by NASA's Juno during spacecraft's the 57th close pass of ...