The energy to melt the rock in Io's mantle would come from tidal heating in the grip of Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an eccentric orbit, and its distance from the ...

JUPITER, Fla. (CBS12) — The Town of Jupiter's first fire chief is officially on the job. On Monday, Darrel Donatto, 61, took on the mantle as the chief of the Jupiter Fire Department.

A new study reveals that, if it has formed at all, the core of Jupiter's oceanic moon Europa could have developed billions of years after the rest of it.The icy shell that surrounds Europa, ...

Two icy moons of Jupiter, though neighboring and of similar size, exhibit radically different internal structures. A new study suggests this dichotomy stems from their very formation, challenging ...

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis studying chemical data from the Hubble Space Telescope have determined the eruption conditions of Jupiter's volcanically active satellite, Io, and ...

The researchers say the global, subsurface magma layer of the mantle must be over 50 kilometres thick and is kept partially molten by tidal forces. Surface lava temperatures hint at an upper ...

Internal structure The researchers say the global, subsurface magma layer of the mantle must be over 50 kilometres thick and is kept partially molten by tidal forces. Surface lava temperatures ...