Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has long been considered a potential home for life in our solar system. In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft first discovered towering plumes of water vapor erupting from ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Every square inch of Saturn’s small moon Enceladus overlies a potentially habitable ocean. Observations of Enceladus’ slight wobble as it orbits Saturn can only be explained if the ...

Material from the crater can "tell the story of the late evolution of the lunar magma ocean," scientists say. A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle ...

Callisto, Jupiter's second-largest moon, may have a rocky surface with an ocean beneath the surface. Corey J. Cochrane, NASA/JPL-Caltech If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our ...

The ocean on Ganymede may have more water than all the water on Earth. In this artist’s concept, the moon Ganymede orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

The Chang'e 6 mission launched in early May 2024, landed in the vast South Pole-Aitken (SPA), and returned to Earth with 4 pounds and 4.29 ounces (1,935.3 grams) of the first-ever samples from the ...

The Moon Was an Ocean of Molten Magma All Over, Samples From the Far Side Reveal. Published: 4 Mar 2025, 08:18 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 15 photos. Photo: CNSA.

A new study of the lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission has verified the hypothesis that the moon was entirely covered by a molten "magma ocean" in the early ...