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Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 confirmed satellites. The surge, driven by deep imaging and clever data ...

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 ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.