New research suggests Jupiter’s moon Europa may lack seafloor activity needed for life, despite its vast subsurface ocean and ...

Dehradun: Variations in subsurface temperature and salinity in the Indian Ocean—often invisible to conventional ...

It seems Pluto is incapable of running out of surprises. The latest research suggests the tiny dwarf planet may hold a vast subsurface ocean under its icy crust. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has long puzzled scientists as a possible home for a vast underground ocean. New analysis of ...

A suspected subsurface ocean on Pluto might be old and deep. New analyses of images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft suggest that the dwarf planet has had an underground ocean since shortly after ...

Saturn's moon Titan is an odd world. Studied in close detail by NASA's Cassini mission and other spacecraft, Titan is so cold that seas and lakes of liquid methane and ethane form on its surface. But ...

Table salt, or sodium chloride is a seemingly unremarkable substance which is ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Now a team of scientists has identified the compound on Europa—Jupiter's fourth largest ...

The creation of Sputnik Planum may have caused Pluto to shift on its axis, accidentally revealing a hidden liquid ocean in the process. The 1300 km-long, 900-km wide basin, located in the icy ...

Europa, with an ocean hidden beneath a thick shell of ice, long has been viewed as a potential habitat for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, alongside other candidates such as Mars and Saturn ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled as to why a bright, heart shaped region on Pluto, known as Tombaugh Regio, appears to be rotationally locked to face the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon. Data ...

It seems Pluto is incapable of running out of surprises. The latest research suggests the tiny dwarf planet may hold a vast subsurface ocean under its icy crust. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...