Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. The gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and ...

Scientists have performed laboratory experiments to better understand how Saturn's moon Titan can maintain ... "Walking on the surface of Titan would feel a bit like scuba diving." ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth largest moon ... could exist on Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and other distant moons, too. Now another moon appears to be ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

That is why astrobiologists are increasingly turning their eyes toward icy bodies like the Jovian moons of Europa and Ganymede, Saturn’s moons Titan and ... of life on Jupiter’s moon when ...

Europa has a diameter of about 3,120 kilometers—which is roughly a quarter the diameter of Earth—and its surface ... on Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Callisto and Saturn’s moons Titan ...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our Solar System, with around 400 volcanoes and extensive lava flows spread across its surface – but contrary to what scientists thought, a ...

NASA's Juno mission revealed that Jupiter's moon, Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, doesn't possess a global magma ocean. Instead, separate magma chambers fuel its over 400 active ...