The surface of Io, one of Jupiter's many moons, is an especially hostile environment – even for space. Scientists recently observed its atmosphere completely collapse for the very first time.

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

Io is slightly larger than Earth's moon, and the surfaces that aren't ... also measuring levels of oxygen and hydrogen in Jupiter's atmosphere. The spacecraft will complete its 61st flyby of ...

Exoplanet L98-59d may look a lot like Jupiter’s moon Io, but wrapped in a much thicker atmosphere of sulfur mixed with oxygen and hydrogen. Banerjee and colleagues used JWST’s Near InfraRed ...

Jupiter moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on Jan ... to compensate for the blurring caused by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere. The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this ...