Ganymede, which is the largest moon in the Solar System, is also one of its ‘ocean worlds’. Most of these are moons that have an icy crust on top of a subsurface ocean.

Our solar system is a pretty wild place, full of amazing stuff. From the giant Sun to the tiny rocks floating around, there’s ...

There’s a newfound ocean in the outer Solar System, and it’s in a very surprising place 1. Mimas, a mid-sized moon of Saturn, turns out to have an ocean beneath its icy surface — despite ...

The solar system has many more moons than the one we can see in the ... Europa, Io and Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system. But Saturn has even more: There are at least 274 Saturnian ...

For the first time, astronomers think they've found solid evidence of a moon orbiting a planet outside of our solar system. And it's a doozy. The exoplanet, named Kepler-1625b, is 8,000 light ...

Gigantic asteroid impact shifted the axis of Solar System's biggest moon. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 09 / 240903144929.htm ...

On this scale a circle two and a half miles in diameter would include all the members of our solar system; but on this scale the nearest fixed stars would be nearly as distant as is our moon. The ...

New research confirms Jupiter's moon Io has been a volcanic hellscape for almost the Solar System’s entire 4.57 billion-year history.

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest moon's axis has shifted as a result of the impact ...

Inside was what at first glance appeared to be unremarkable pebbles and dust but was actually some of the oldest material in our solar system: moon rocks. “You’re never going to have an older rock in ...