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Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, hinting at a careful energy balance deep that may have kept the subsurface ocean stable over geologically significant timescales, boosting its ...

"Tidal heating plays an important role in the heating and orbital evolution of celestial bodies," said Alex Hayes, professor of astronomy. "It provides the warmth necessary to form and sustain ...

Recent observations suggest that Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, could be significantly hotter than scientists previously estimated. This revelation, reported on November 7, 2025, suggests that tidal ...

Saturn's innermost moon, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, may be a "stealth" ocean world, according to new research. Mimas, which is the smallest and closest to Saturn of the ringed ...

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus continues to reveal surprises that challenge our understanding of ocean worlds. A new study has just shown that this small moon releases heat from both of its poles, not ...

Artist's impression of what the Moon looked like during the tidal-heating event. There would have been intense volcanic activity everywhere. The early Earth would have loomed much larger in the sky ...

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