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Mesmerizing new NASA image shows the lava on one of Jupiter's moons that helps form the massive planet's auroras
NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped an infrared picture of Jupiter's moon Io, which is home to hundreds …
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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Jupiter's powerful auroras form during a 'tug of war' between the planet and nearby moon volcanoes
NASA's Juno spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope helped researchers chart the electric current…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An incredible video shows what we would see if the planets replaced the moon. But that would turn Earth into a volcanic hellscape.
"We could expect a similar scenario on Earth. Initially, Earth's mantle and crust would be gravitat…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth
NASA's Juno spacecraft flew extremely close to Jupiter's eruptive moon Io and took some stunning ph…
Ellyn Lapointe
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There's something mysterious about Jupiter's many moons
The Galilean moons are still the largest, and probably the coolest, of Jupiter's moons. I…
Meghan Bartels
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The sky is (literally) falling on Jupiter's most hellish moon
You're a Jovian lunar explorer in the year 2200. You've piloted your lander to the surface of Io, t…
Rafi Letzter
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Jupiter is humongous, and this photo of its hellish moon proves it
Instead of generating electricity using red-hot plutonium-238, which is extremely limited in supply…
Dave Mosher
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This Image Of Jupiter Is So Detailed It Seems Fake
The images were obtained from a range of 7.3 million kilometers on February 27, 1979. This is sligh…
Jennifer Welsh
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Incredible images of 3 of Jupiter's moons crossing in front of the red giant
When moons march across the face of Jupiter, it looks pretty amazing. So, when word got out that th…
Jessica Orwig
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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…
PTI
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This crazy Image reveals what one of Jupiter's moons looks like compared to Earth
The picture above is of the fourth largest moon in the solar system, Io, placed on top of North Ame…
Jessica Orwig
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Crazy Image Shows What One Of Jupiter's Moons Looks Like Compared To Earth
The picture above is of the fourth largest moon in the solar system, Io, placed on top of North Ame…
Jessica Orwig
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45 years ago, NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew past Jupiter. See how the iconic video compares to photos of the planet today.
Voyager 1 captured Jupiter as nobody had ever seen it before. Now, 45 years later, NASA's Juno spac…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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Stunning NASA Image Catches A Volcanic Explosion On Jupiter's Moon
Locked in a perpetual tug of war between the imposing gravity of Jupiter and the smaller, consisten…
Jennifer Welsh
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NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just beamed back mesmerizing new photos of the gas giant
Yesterday, a team of researchers announced the discovery of 12 new Jovian moons, bringing Jupiter's…
Dana Varinsky,Dave Mosher
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This Crazy Image Shows What One Of Jupiter's Moons Looks Like Compared To Earth
The picture above is of the fourth largest moon in the solar system, Io, placed on top of North Ame…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA put together this awesome movie of Juno approaching Jupiter and its moons
"Galileo observed these moons to change position with respect to Jupiter over the course of a few n…
Ali Sundermier
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Stunning video captures a rare Jupiter triple-eclipse: 3 large moons casting their shadows over the planet
Moons pass between Jupiter and Earth all the time, but it's rare that three of them do it at once. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA flew through a blast of alien ocean water in 1997 - and a $2 billion mission may soon 'taste' it for signs of life
In 1997, Galileo zoomed within 130 miles of the surface of Europa, the fourth-largest moon of Jupit…
Dave Mosher
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This amazing video shows what it's like to zoom through space on NASA's daredevil Jupiter probe
Once the mission ends, however, Juno won't live on as a relic of humanity's exploration. To protect…