The Juno probe made the closest pass in 22 years of Jupiter's icy moon Europa on Thursday (Sept. 29), providing the best view of the ocean world since the NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by it 2000 ...

A view of the moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole-Aitken basin. This region stretches between Aitken crater and the south pole (hence the name). The image highlights how much this ...

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is headed to Jupiter's moon Europa, which likely harbors a great sea. The space agency released a close-up view of the moon's tantalizing surface.

EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across ...

Evidence of a deep global ocean beneath the crust of Saturn's moon Mimas—sometimes called the "Death Star"—has surprised astronomers because it's such an unlikely place to find one.

Caleb Strom explained that the findings from Miranda could change how scientists think about small, icy moons: “If a moon as small as Miranda can maintain an ocean, it broadens our perspective ...

A deep ocean exists beneath the icy, cratered surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission.

The moon has been long theorized to have formed due to a Mars-sized planet named Theia slamming into the early Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, with the remains of the collision eventually coming ...

Rocks collected by the Chandrayaan-3 offer more clues to the moon's violent past. ... The moon was once covered in an ocean of magma: new data supports theory.

Mimas, which is Saturn's 7th largest moon and resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, has a unique orbit around its parent planet that can best be explained by the presence of a liquid ocean ...