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

"The suggestion of an ocean inside one of the most distant moons in the solar system is remarkable," a researcher said.

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 ...

A distant moon circling the planet Uranus at the distant ... The computer models suggest that around 100 to 500 million years ago Miranda had an ocean which was at least 62 miles deep, trapped ...

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

A UND Ph.D. candidate is the lead author on a study exploring the possibility Uranus' moon Miranda hosted a massive subsurface ocean in the last 500 million years. The surface of Uranus' moon ...

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 ...