A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...
Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...
Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...
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.
A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
For the most part, these moons (such as Europa or Enceladus) have been gravitationally bound to the gas giants Jupiter or Saturn. Recently, though, planetary scientists have been turning their ...
O cean worlds, such as Europa around Jupiter and Enceladus around Saturn, are recent and fascinating discoveries. These moons hide, far beneath their icy crusts, a deep liquid ocean. Other moons and ...
People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...
The findings also support the idea that Ceres was once an ocean world, similar to Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn’s moon ...