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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in the journal ...

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 our solar system. But life as we ...

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.