What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Thanks to our current viewing angle, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn this month, concurrent with a transit of Enceladus and its shadow. Although the latter two are shown here, ...

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, ...

PARIS, June 19, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's ...

Hidden deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a remarkable undersea landscape known as the Lost City Hydrothermal Field could be ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

Beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, some 700 meters down, what appears to be a lost city has been found. Although it ...

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

Right until its final moments, the spacecraft continued to send insightful images of 'The Ringed Planet.' The mission's ...

Undaunted, the team is now pushing for it to be used instead on Enceladus. More information: J. J. Bowkett et al, Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept, ...

Possible microbes in the Mariana Trench hint at life on Jupiter’s moon. During the 2012 DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition to the deepest part of the ocean, scientists spotted fuzzy mats that may be ...