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 ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

The team suspects the ocean is about 12.4 miles to 18.6 miles (20 kilometers to 30 kilometers) deep beneath the moon’s ice shell. With the ocean so young, astronomically speaking, there wouldn ...

Saturn’s innermost moon, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, may be a “stealth” ocean world, according to new research. Mimas, which is the smallest and closest to Saturn of the ...

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 8:47 AM | 59 ...

The enormous Herschel crater dominates Saturn’s moon Mimas, giving it a Death Star–like appearance. New evidence suggests a large ocean might also lurk beneath the moon’s ice.

The moon was once covered in an ocean of magma: new data supports theory Rocks collected by the Chandrayaan-3 offer more clues to the moon's violent past. Tom Hawking Aug 21, 2024 11:00 AM EDT ...

An artist's rendition of a magma ocean on a volcanic planet. Scientists have theorized that our moon was covered in a magma ocean for millions of years after it formed. Merikanto via Wikimedia ...