Let's dive into some of the most promising water worlds in the solar system and beyond. Scientists first became aware that ...

These worlds are relatively inert ... There are hundreds more places in the solar system where water can be found, whether tiny, ice-packed moonlets never given official mythological names ...

The closest analogues that we have in our own solar system to such water-rich worlds are the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. For example, Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, has a deep ocean sloshing ...

(bursting) "Solar System: Wandering Worlds," right now on ... Could Ceres still be a water world today? So, "hydro" is water and "halite" is salt-- table salt. So, if you imagine a table salt ...

The so-called “water worlds” are orbiting a red dwarf star ... And they’re “unlike any planets found in our solar system,” the agency said. The finding that the planets are likely ...

What are the weirdest worlds in our solar system, and how did they come to be? From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the ...

The universe is full of icy worlds that scientists suspect ... We’ve found plenty of ice in our solar system, but no consistent liquid water is known on any moon or planetary surface aside ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a young star that resembles the sun.