Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, have evidence of oceans beneath their ice crusts. A NASA experiment suggests that if these oceans support life, signatures of that life ...

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

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

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

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.

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

a category that is now known to include Europa’s siblings Calisto and Ganymede, as well as Saturn’s Enceladus and Titan, and Neptune’s Triton. The Galileo probe also showed that enormous ...

The Europa Clipper mission launched using a SpaceX ... Other icy moons like Enceladus are known to give off epic plumes of water vapor from their surface, in which material from the oceans below ...

“To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising,” said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

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