A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a study released on the preprint server ...

The European Space Agency is planning an ambitious mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus, launching in the 2040s. Utilizing an ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is moving forward with a mission to Saturn’s moon Enceladus, one of the most promising places ...

Despite their liquid water and potential for habitability, these moons are very different environments from Earth. On Earth, ...

Small icy moons may have hidden oceans that briefly boil under thick ice. Changing pressure inside these moons shapes their ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it had secured a record budget of 22.1 billion euros to fund its programmes for ...

While the crater-pitted moon may appear geologically dead, researchers have discovered more could be going on under its icy ...

Out in the cold, distant reaches of our solar system, many moons are wrapped in thick layers of ice. At first glance, these ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.