JWST could potentially detect the signature of methyl halide compounds, produced by microbial life in Earth's ocean, on ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

The Earth's hidden ocean is 700 km beneath this continent. Scientists made a discovery that changes everything we thought we ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.

The Mars water debate continues. A team of scientists suggests vast oceans of water may not be locked within the Red Planet's ...

A team of astrobiologists has proposed a novel approach for detecting life on ocean planets ... including many habitable planets, which may harbor liquid water on their surfaces.

At a glance, the planet looks as though it has never seen a drop of liquid. Its global dust storms are legendary ... Where did it go, and how? "Oceans are important on planets. Oceans have a large ...

Florida Tech's Caldon Whyte is two years into a lengthy universe exploration to earn his Ph.D. in space sciences. After ...

Mars may once have held enough water to fill oceans and form coastlines. The planet’s red dust contains water and likely formed in cold conditions.

Astronomers should search for technosignatures on planets that are not conducive to life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb ...

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...