A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

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

Enceladus has jets rich in phosphates and likely hydrothermal vents in its ocean. With the key ingredients for life on its surface, the moon may serve as an incubator for life. National Corporate ...

AN ocean full of alien life could be hiding on an icy moon system not far from earth, in what scientists have called an "incredibly surprising" discovery. The moon, named Miranda, orbits the ...

Thanks to images from various NASA spacecraft, we can get an up-close look at the Jupiter ocean moon Europa long before the ...

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

A US spacecraft launched last week to try to land on the Moon has ended its mission in flames over the Pacific ... expected to survive intact to the ocean surface. And even if they did, they ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

They discovered that the most likely scenario to result in Miranda's strange appearance would be if the moon had a vast underground ocean between 100 million and 500 million years ago. This ocean ...

Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, has always been a bit of a mystery. Recently, scientists have been curious if it might have an ocean hidden beneath its icy surface. If this is true, it could ...

Over the last few decades ... radius of just 146 miles (235 kilometers), which means the ocean would have taken up almost half the moon's entire body. It also means that finding such an ocean ...