The study, published in Science, indicates that for most of - or possibly all - its 4.57 billion years of existence, Io has been an angry world. As Jupiter's innermost large moon, it is subject to ...

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 ...

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of erupting volcanoes. High-resolution images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers ...