A new study suggests Uranus' moon Miranda may harbor a water ocean beneath its surface, a finding that would challenge many assumptions about the moon's history and composition and could put it in ...

Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas seems to have an ocean, too The ocean must have formed relatively recently, but we don't know how. John Timmer – Feb 7, 2024 11:47 am | 59 That is ...

Measurements of the Enceladus ice shell conducted by NASA's Cassini probe, which orbited Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017, suggest the moon's subsurface ocean may have a temperature ...

The moon has been long theorized to have formed due to a Mars-sized planet named Theia slamming into the early Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, with the remains of the collision eventually coming ...

Scientists have theorized that our moon was covered in a magma ocean for millions of years after it formed. Merikanto via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0. Roughly 4.5 ...

From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, these space missions are slated for 2024 A planetary scientist shares six of the space missions she's most excited to follow this year ...