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Saturn’s small moon Mimas may be hiding an impossible ocean

Mimas doesn’t show any hints of liquid water, and it seems impossible that it could have an ocean under its surface, but that’s exactly what a new set of simulations suggest

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Oberon

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The biggest moons of Uranus may have oceans beneath their icy shells

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A fragment of our moon may be orbiting the sun with Earth

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A fragment of our moon may be orbiting the sun with Earth

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Artist's illustration of an exoplanet, exomoons and a galaxy

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Astronomers may have found a moon orbiting a rogue planet with no star

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PDS 70 star system

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Astronomers may have spotted a distant alien moon being born

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Europa’s icy shell may have pockets of water that could support life

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Europa’s icy shell may have pockets of water that could support life

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An image from Cassini of Saturn's icy moon Rhea

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Puzzling signal on Saturn’s moon Rhea may finally be explained

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2020 in review: Earth acquired a minimoon the size of a 6-year-old

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2020 in review: Earth acquired a minimoon the size of a 6-year-old

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Minimoon

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Earth had a minimoon for nearly three years before it drifted away

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Jupiter’s moon Europa has ice that may glow green in the dark

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Jupiter’s moon Europa has ice that may glow green in the dark

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may glow in the dark, which could help NASA’s Europa Clipper mission determine whether the moon’s seas have the ingredients for life

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A giant impact may have caused cracks all over Jupiter's moon Ganymede

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Astronomers have spotted six possible exomoons in distant star systems

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Mars’s moon Phobos may someday turn back into a ring around the planet

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Earth has acquired a brand new moon that's about the size of a car

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