The Iowa River Landing was a cool place we visited on our last trip there to spend some time shopping among boutiques, ...

Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a collapsing cloud of dust and gas soon after the solar system existed. Primordial rocks often get melted and recycled by Earth's mov ...

NASA have found something new moving in our Solar System. Even thought it's not water, still a phenomenon worth of time ...

The tariffs wars involving global economic powerhouses such as the U.S. and China are being felt even in such distinctly local places as your regional amusement park.

Close flybys of Io, one of Jupiter's moons and the most volcanically active world in our solar system, have revealed a lava lake and a towering feature called "Steeple Mountain" on the moon's ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured one of the most stunning discoveries during its flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io, which is a massive lava lake called Loki Patera, estimated to be around 200 ...

The lava lakes captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft provide a detailed insight into Io’s volcanic activity. These features align with what scientists expect from tidal heating, where the internal heat ...

Researchers think they've spotted two waves of lava moving from west to east in the crater. Both waves -- which appeared on two sides of a cooler island in the crater -- moved about 0.6 miles, or ...

On April 19, 2024, a Juno Mission website hosted by Southwest Regional Institute (SwRI) featured an article about the mountain and also "an almost glass-smooth lake of cooling lava." ...

Widespread occurrence of lava lakes on Io observed from Juno. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets . Vol. 130, February 2025, e2024JE008723. doi: 10.1029/2024JE008723.

The volcanic feature, which has yet to be named, spans a colossal 40,000 square miles – dwarfing Io's previous record holder, a lava lake named Loki Patera that measured about 7,700 square miles ...