"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

Our moon may have once been as hellish as Jupiter's super volcanic moon Io ...

Park and his team recently applied a similar technique to Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, using data acquired by NASA's Juno and Galileo spacecraft during their flybys of the Jovian satellite as well ...

"It resets the playing field for how the geology, crust and atmosphere on Venus work together." Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering ...

Data from spacecraft is helping scientists better understand moons, including Jupiter’s Io (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) With the help of a supercomputer, the study’s authors produced what they ...

They recently applied a similar technique to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, revealing that the fiery moon is unlikely to possess a global magma ocean. “Gravity is a unique and fundamental ...

They found that Vesta likely has a small or no core, unlike previous theories. They recently applied a similar technique to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, revealing that the fiery moon is unlikely to ...

The Old Farmer’s Almanac began publishing full moon names in the 1930s, which were inspired by those associated with Native American tribes. For instance, the flower moon—the name of each full ...