For decades, Pluto was thought to be just another frozen rock spinning around the Sun, far from the action and mystery of the ...

As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

Europa, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, is a frozen world with a subsurface ocean. It intrigues scientists as a possible home ...

A series of experiments led by Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Ujjwal Raut support spectral data recently collected by ...

A new study proposes that seeding the orb’s underground ocean with microbes might help us learn how to make other worlds ...

The loss of Arctic sea ice is one of the most visible signs of our planet's warming. But according to new research, it's also quietly transforming how light moves through the ocean in ways that ...

This artist’s concept depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter and passes over the gas giant’s ice-covered moon Europa ... s icy moon Europa, a world believed to harbor a vast ...

Thing is, Pensacola's ties to the bottom of the world are probably stronger than ... "One year in the winter, I saw a black line on the ice," he said. "It kept getting more prominent." ...

which is enough to raise the world's oceans by 190 feet if it melts. (dramatic music continues) Accelerated ocean warming has already locked in drastic melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

linking interior structure to ocean circulation and biosignature detectability" by Kaushal Gianchandani Abstract: Europa, Jupiter’s ice-covered moon, likely harbors a subsurface ocean and is a key ...