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

USA: NASA will this week search for signs of life on Saturn by sending a probe into a plume of icy vapour coming from one of its 62 moons. Experts hope their Cassini spacecraft will unlock the ...

And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

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

On October 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! ‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

A ridge that follows the equator of Saturn's moon Iapetus gives it the appearance of a giant walnut. The ridge, photographed in 2004 by the Cassini spacecraft, is 100 kilometers (62 miles ...

At this point, you may wonder: There are a few icy ocean moons in the solar system, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus ... with an estimated average depth of 62 miles (100 km).

Orion will enter an elliptical orbit of the Moon that will see them get to within 62 miles above its surface ... and that includes the agency’s Saturn V “Moon rocket,” which was last used ...

Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere ...

After that excitement will come a nice conjunction of Venus and bright star Regulus, the rising of a full “Buck Moon” and the chance to see both Saturn and ... line (62 miles/100km up) that ...