To solve that problem, a team of German researchers at the Technical University in Berlin figured that, instead of having a ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons astronomers think might be harboring liquid ...

Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...

"The mounds are rich in clay minerals, meaning liquid water must have been present at the surface in large quantities nearly four billion years ago." Mars is a planet of two halves ... lakes and ...

Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also ...

One of the Red Planet’s features is known as the Martian dichotomy, which describes the sharp contrast between its southern and northern hemispheres. Around one-third of the planet's northern ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Beneath the Earth's surface lies a vast ocean, which is three times larger than all the oceans on the planet. However, it is not a liquid. Scientists have identified a gigantic ocean hidden hundreds ...

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...