Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme. Scientists with NASA's Juno mission have discovered a ...

The volcanoes are unusual in that they are intraplate. This means that they are located above a ‘hot spot’ rather than along a plate boundary. Hot spots occur where columns of superheated ...

The volcanoes are unusual in that they are intraplate. This means that they are located above a ‘hot spot’ rather than along a plate boundary. Hot spots occur where columns of superheated ...