The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA ...

Loki, named for the Norse god of mischief, is about to unleash an eruption on Jupiter’s moon Io, according to astronomers. Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system, according to ...

Io is unlike any world in the Solar System. Covered in towering volcanoes, rivers of molten lava, and constant geological ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home to more than 100 massive volcanic mountains, some of which are taller than ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Bright colors shooting skyward with clouds of ash filling the air, our mental images of volcanoes are as vivid as reality. These stellar sights can be seen outside of Earth as ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can be. Its surface glows with hundreds of active hot spots. Its mountains rise higher than Everest. Its lava ...

Bright oranges and reds shooting skyward, and a sea of cooler black below... our mental images of volcanoes are as vivid as reality, though volcanism is not limited to our home planet. Dr. Radebaugh ...