Two recent studies published in Icarus examine tectonic processes known as shear stresses which are also referred to as strike-slip faults on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, and Saturn’s largest moon, ...

Saturn's moon Titan was once suggested to possibly contain hidden life inside its huge subsurface ocean, but these hopes may have been scuppered by a new discovery. Titan is likely uninhabitable from ...

An asteroid 20 times larger than the one that may have wiped out the dinosaurs struck Jupiter's moon Ganymede some 4 billion years ago, dramatically shifting the possibly life-hosting satellite's axis ...

A gargantuan asteroid impact on Ganymede, the solar system’s largest moon, significantly altered the body’s axis, according to a new study in Scientific Reports. Ganymede is a Jovian moon that is ...

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A Kobe University researcher has confirmed that an asteroid which struck Jupiter’s moon Ganymede was about 20 times larger than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs on Earth. According to the ...

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in the last two decades, according to NASA. The moon is the largest in our solar system. (FILE-A screenshot from the ...

With Europa and Enceladus getting most of the attention for their subsurface oceans and potential to host life, other frozen worlds have been left in the shadows—but the mysterious Jovian moon ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As club sandwiches go, this undoubtedly is the biggest one in the solar system. Scientists said on Friday that Jupiter's moon Ganymede may possess ice and liquid oceans stacked ...