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Webb Detects Clay Minerals on Neptune’s Inner Moons and Rings

Spectra show phyllosilicates plus an unidentified hydrated mineral suggesting the moons and rings are fragments of larger water‑altered worlds.

Astronomers Report Jupiter‑Mass Companion Orbiting Brown Dwarf in CD‑35 2722 System

Juno Measures Hidden Heat Beneath Jupiter’s Moon Io

Researchers Map a Decades‑Long Road Toward Crewed Missions to Titan

Study Suggests Nereid Is Neptune’s Last Intact Original Moon

Hubble Reanalysis Weakens Case for Water Plumes on Europa

Uranus’s Outer Rings Yield First Spectra, Pointing to Icy Mab Source and Possible Hidden Moonlets

Cassini Data Show Saturn’s Magnetic Cusp Is Skewed Toward Dusk

New Study Links Titan Moon Merger to the Birth of Saturn’s Rings

Study Links Titan’s Moon‑Merger Origin to Saturn’s Young Rings

Reanalysis of Galileo Data Finds Ammonia on Europa Near Surface Fractures

Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

New Model Shows Salty Europa Ice Could Sink, Ferrying Nutrients to Its Hidden Ocean

Study Finds Europa’s Seafloor Likely Inactive, Undercutting Hopes for Present-Day Life

New Study Recasts Titan’s Interior, Challenging Idea of a Global Ocean

Titan May Lack a Global Ocean, Cassini Reanalysis Points to a Slushy Interior With Isolated Water Pockets

Study Finds Subsurface Oceans Could Boil Inside Small Icy Moons

Cassini Reanalysis Finds Heat Escaping From Both Poles of Enceladus, Strengthening Case for a Long‑Lived Ocean

Study Finds Enceladus’ Heat Loss Matches Tidal Input, Indicating a Long-Lived Ocean

Study Reveals Polar Heat Loss Across Enceladus, Supporting a Long‑Lived Subsurface Ocean