"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really saying something." ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according to ESA/NASA. Credit: Space.com | NASA, ESA, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simo ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...