This prior discovery and the new revelation of how this ocean may have come to be could ultimately impact our search for life elsewhere in the solar system. Related: Saturn's 'Death Star' moon ...

Suspended in a vast dark expanse and surrounded by stars, it’s possible to see Australia’s land mass and the serene blues and greens of our ocean. Taj Mahal Moon Here, the moon looks ...

New evidence from an old NASA mission supports the theory that Jupiter's moon Callisto is in fact an ocean world. Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely has a ...

A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...

Sometimes sleep takes priority over cool celestial events. Luckily, you can catch a partial solar eclipse this month and a ...

Want to see planets or stars up close in the night ... locations in the eastern Indian Ocean, Australia, and the western south Pacific islands. As the moon will be only a day old, the occultation ...

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 ...

A Chinese study found that the Moon was wholly covered by a molten “magma ocean” in the early phases of its formation. A study by the China National Space Administration, published in the ...

Liquid from the ocean, scientists believed, could be escaping through cracks in the moon's icy crust. Researchers at Dartmouth College set out to understand exactly how these geysers form ...