A businessman has revealed plans to colonise the Moon by 2063 and transform humanity into a "multi-planet species". Argentinian-American entrepreneur Guillermo Söhnlein told The Independent that ...

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 ...

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 ...