Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of a vast, young ocean beneath the icy exterior of Saturn's Death Star lookalike mini moon.Related video above: First photo from Japan's moon lander The ...

Saturn's moon Mimas has a giant impact crater, named Hershel, that stretches across a third of its surface and makes it resemble the "Death Star" from Star Wars. NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute ...

"We may be seeing Mimas at a particularly interesting time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earlier this year, researchers ...

The good news is that there's a vast ocean of water under the surface of Mars – enough to cover the entire planet to a depth of a mile (1.6 km). The bad news is that this repository is so deep and ...

Africa is gradually splitting in two. As with most geological processes, it unfolds at a glacial pace over millions of years, but in time it could cause part of East Africa to break away from the rest ...

RARATONGA, Cook Islands, August 29, 2012 (ENS) – The French Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia has pledged to create a vast marine protected area in its exclusive economic zone. The protected ...

Scientists have found that deep under the earth's crust, there is an ocean of water. Three dimensional (3D) seismic imaging revealed the water, which sits about two miles underneath the floor of the ...

Saturn’s moon Mimas appears to have a vast global ocean underneath its icy shell, according to close measurements of its orbit. If other icy worlds have similar oceans, it could increase the number of ...

Simon Winchester has spent his life following his curiosity to far-flung corners of the world. And though he has crossed many oceans, the one that has made the greatest impression on him is the one ...

Mars, the red planet we know today as cold, dry, and desolate, might not have always been this way. New research from the University of Arkansas suggests that, billions of years ago, Mars was home to ...