Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Searches in recent years have identified several promising candidates, and the cloud around WASP-49 b offers the latest strong prospect — a satellite that may resemble Io, the moon of Jupiter ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

By analyzing the movements of a mysterious cloud of sodium moving around the planet WASP-49 b, the team was able to construct a compelling argument for the presence of an exomoon. While many ...

NASA scientists believe they have found indirect evidence of a moon orbiting an exoplanet with similarities to Jupiter's moon Io, pictured here. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists ...

It's four largest moons are Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa. They are known as Galilean moons, named after Italian ...

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...

“To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising,” said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere ...

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it seems.

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2024. Today, Nov. 10, 2024, the moon is 9 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar ...

Three of Jupiter’s moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are home to large, underground oceans of liquid water that could support life. This composite image shows, from top to bottom ...