Enceladus erupts over 660 pounds of water per second, with jets reaching up to 6,000 miles into space. These massive plumes far exceed the size of the moon itself. National Corporate funding for ...

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.

Since the formation of Earth approximately 4.5 billion years ago, the convection and release of hot magma in its mantle layer ...

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

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

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

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

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

With a hard, frozen exterior, Enceladus' surface averages a chilly -330 degrees Fahrenheit. It's one of the coldest places in the Saturn system. An ice world, where we'd expect everything to be ...