Researchers have uncovered startling insights into boiling oceans on small icy moons in the outer reaches of the solar system. Findings have been published in the journal Nature Astronomy. To ...

Imagine boiling something. You probably picture a stove, heat radiating from a burner, and bubbles rising because the temperature has hit 100 degrees Celsius. You wouldn’t really picture a frozen moon ...

Saturn’s “Death Star”-like moon Mimas may have a boiling ocean under its icy shell. The moon pitted with craters—including a very large one, giving it its nickname—may appear to be geologically dead, ...