Earlier this year, a team of astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus that is minuscule, with a diameter of about 10km.

There are several frozen moons in our solar system, orbiting the gas giants. Some of them, despite having temperatures that would make Antarctica feel tropical, have liquid water under the surface.

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

Simulations show that subsurface oceans on small moons may hit boiling conditions, potentially creating features like Miranda’s distinctive ridges.

A new study published Nov. 24 in Nature Astronomy sheds light on what could be going on beneath the surface of these worlds ...

That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will host a Christmas-themed program, “Star of the Magi,” twice during ...

Unlike geology on Earth, which is driven by the movement of deep rock, the action on icy moons is powered by the dynamics of ...

Saturn stunned skywatchers on 23 November when its iconic rings seemed to vanish, leaving the planet looking strangely bare. Astronomers confirmed nothing was wrong. Earth had passed directly through ...

"This process could explain distinctive surface features on small moons that otherwise appear geologically dead." ...

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