We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

OpenAI has closed the $6.5 billion deal to buy Jony Ive’s startup, io Products, practically confirming the ChatGPT hardware ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

The findings, which come after Juno has flown close to the planet to peer under its cloud covered atmosphere, shed light on Jupiter's fierce winds and violent cyclones. On the fiery Io, the ...

Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet Not only was the hot spot larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, but it also was seen belching out ...

NASA 's Juno space probe, which has been exploring Jupiter, its moons and rings since 2016, has uncovered a remarkable volcanic feature on Io, the planet’s moon. The hot spot, located in the southern ...

NASA's Juno mission revealed that Jupiter's moon, Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, doesn't possess a global magma ocean. Instead, separate magma chambers fuel its over 400 active ...

More information: R. S. Park et al, Io's tidal response precludes a shallow magma ocean, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08442-5 Journal information: Nature ...

Now, Conrad et al. present the highest-resolution images of Io ever captured by an Earth-based instrument. These visible-wavelength snapshots reveal surface features that hint at a recent powerful ...

Graphic: Alessandro Mura et al (Other) According to Mura, lead author of the Io paper, the probe’s flybys expose the most common type of volcanism on Jupiter’s hottest moon — “enormous ...