Now, a new moon may join these ranks, as researchers have found evidence of an ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn’s small moon Mimas. Mimas film This finding is surprising as Mimas is much ...

The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa—with more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined.

This new method is not limited by the coverage constraints of NAC-derived digital terrain ... traditional lunar magma ocean (LMO) model theory, which posits that the moon's early surface was ...

An uncanny resemblance to the Death Star might not be the only intriguing thing about Saturn’s moon Mimas. It could also harbor a vast ocean of liquid water beneath its pockmarked exterior.

Previous studies had suggested Enceladus’s ocean might not contain any phosphorus, according to Postberg. This discovery changes how scientists must think about the moon’s potential ...

NASA Supported by By Katrina Miller Under its bright, frosty shell, Jupiter’s moon Europa is thought to harbor a salty ocean, making it a world that might be one of the most habitable places in ...

The loss of the magma played a crucial role in the moon's landscape formation. There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing ...

The similarity in chemical composition across these samples, despite being taken from distant regions of the Moon, reinforces the theory that a global magma ocean once coated the Moon in its early ...

This would have meant the newly formed moon was covered entirely in magma: a global magma ocean, so hot and deep that it took at least tens of millions of years to cool and solidify into rock.