An international collaboration looks at the role of the subsurface ocean, especially a depth referred to as 26 °C isothermal ...

If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA's Cassini ...

Mars wasn't always the dusty red desert we know today. Billions of years ago, waves may have crashed against sandy beaches under an alien sky, while rivers carried sediments into a vast northern ocean ...

But evidence for Callisto's subsurface ocean has remained inconclusive, as the moon has an intense ionosphere. Scientists thought this electrically conductive upper part of the moon's atmosphere ...

New research suggests Enceladus’ water plumes may originate from a slushy ice layer rather than its underground ocean.

According to Cochrane, the team was working on a different project, involving scanning Neptune's moon Triton to see if it has a subsurface ocean. This presented a challenge, because of Triton's ...