Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Seemingly sleepy Enceladus - a moon of Saturn's just a fraction of the size of our own satellite - was barely on the radar of ...

Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, has always been a bit of a mystery. Recently, scientists have been curious if it might have ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Astronomers have detected a huge plume of water vapour spurting out into space from Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn. The 504km-wide (313 miles) moon is well known for its geysers, but this is a ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

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The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

around a hundred red giant stars—some of the oldest stars in our galaxy—some of which appear to pre-date the Milky Way's collision with another small galaxy called the Gaia-Enceladus-Sausage.

Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.

In a discovery that may further our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth, a research team, including ...