Moons may seem like quiet companions to the planets, but many of them are worlds every bit as fascinating as the planets themselves. Some are covered in oceans, some erupt with lava, and others hide ...

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Several small worlds beyond Jupiter are not just frozen rubble. Beneath their shining skins, many hide oceans of liquid water. New research says those seas do not always stay calm. When the ice lids ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show how Jupiter reacts to its moons through auroral footprints, plasma interactions, and rapid electron flows detected in infrared measurements.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Scientists have found new evidence that Jupiter’s largest moons may have received the chemical building blocks of life at the moment they formed. The discovery suggests that worlds like Europa, ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been gazing at signals that left the solar system before many of today's graduate students were even born ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.