Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, is exhibiting geothermal activity far beyond what scientists had anticipated, with heat levels ...

When the gibbous moon hits your eye like a big glowing orb ... you know you're in the Andes Mountains. This full moon was ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home ...

Trapped in a gravitational push and pull between Jupiter and other Jovian moons, Io is constantly being stretched and ...

A 2.35-billion-year-old Moon rock that fell to Earth in Africa is rewriting what we know about lunar volcanism. This rare meteorite, studied by UK scientists and unveiled at a major geochemistry ...

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"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." Ancient volcanic heat may have shaped the moon from the inside out, keeping ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...