The appearance of one of Saturn's smallest moons lends it the nickname "Death Star," but astronomers say new evidence suggests the world is, in fact, home to an ingredient vital for life: water.

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel crater might make it look like the “Death Star” space ... it may be an ocean world capable ...

NASA Study Reveals Uranus’ Moon ‘Miranda’ With Hidden Ocean Could Be Home to Aliens, Breakthrough in Research Recent studies showed that one of Uranus’s moons, Miranda, might hold signs of ...

Understanding this frozen moon will provide insight others like it such as Enceladus and Triton and, most likely, icy ocean worlds in distant star systems. Niebur points out that there is only one ...

On Oct. 14 NASA’s Europa Clipper was launched from Kennedy Space Center to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa. It will arrive at ...

From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...

14, 2024 — NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that ... The star type was uncertain.

The new moon occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.