The incident could have created enough heat for Pluto to form an underground ocean ... in a similar fashion to Earth's moon: The theory goes that a Mars-sized planet whacked a primitive version ...

Earlier this year, researchers discovered that a vast liquid ocean lurks beneath the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon, Mimas ... "eccentric" due to the ringed planet's pull, its icy shell melted ...

"To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like ... by orbital resonances—a configuration where each moon's period ...

The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will be headed when it launches in 2028 in search of past life on Mars. It now ...

The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off ...

For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon ... dwarf planet’s ice shell, which may have caused it to melt and form a subsurface ocean.

The researchers concluded that the planet's rings formed less than ... Evidence That Saturn's Moon Mimas Is a Stealth Ocean World Jan. 31, 2023 — When a scientist discovered surprising evidence ...

After the sun and the moon, the planet Venus is the brightest astronomical ... low-lying clouds over the eastern Pacific Ocean in recent years. That's exactly where increases in sea surface ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.