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 ...

Jupiter’s wild atmosphere is on full display ... It may get its red hue in part from sulfur contamination from the moon Io. The moon’s redness doesn’t show up well in the recent Juno ...

Jupiter moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on Jan. 10 ... to compensate for the blurring caused by turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere. The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured ...

that in our Moon we have a picture of our Earth, as she will be at some far distant date … when her oceans and atmosphere have disappeared through the action of the same circumstances (whatever ...