Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...
NASA's Europa Clipper mission, featuring SwRI’s MASPEX and UVS instruments, seeks to uncover clues about life-supporting ...
Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...
Importantly, the new study looks at the effects of body tides on objects that don't have a perfectly spherical interior structure, which is an assumption of most previous models. The puzzling, ...
A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...
"If Jupiter doesn’t have a surface, what does it have? " ...
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...