The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...

Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its ...

"Complex chemical reactions" discovered in fresh ice grains from Saturn’s moon Enceladus renews hopes that it may harbor life ...

Uranus' moon Ariel could have had liquid water 100 miles deep, hidden under its icy crust, possibly making it yet another ...

Underground oceans on moons “are perhaps the best candidates for the emergence of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.

A NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is thought to ...

Scientists found new evidence to strengthen the case that Enceladus, small moon of Saturn about 310 miles wide, may have ...

Recent studies, including research from ScienceDirect, suggest that Saturn’s moon Mimas, known as the “Death Star” moon for ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, published in Icarus, characterizes the possible evolution of this ocean, and ...

Evidence points to a long-lost ocean beneath Ariel’s icy crust. Tides and orbit shifts may have cracked its surface billions of years ago. Growing evidence indicates that a deep ocean may lie hidden ...