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On Earth, you can look up at night and see the Moon shining bright from hundreds of thousands of miles away. But if you went to Venus, that wouldn't be the case. Not every planet has a moon — so why ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

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Saturn's moon Mimas, just 250 miles wide, could have a liquid water ocean under its outer icy shell, according to new research led by Max Rudolph at UC Davis. If such moons are the right size, water ...