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 ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) across, which makes it slightly bigger than Earth's moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of around 262,000 ...

According to their models, the ocean may have once measured 62 miles (100 kilometers ... it warm enough from freezing over.

It will be investigating the potential habitability of Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa — but first ... global with an estimated average depth of 62 miles (100 km). For comparison, Earth's ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however ...