Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving ...

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

It has been described as being a pretty view of the natural landscape when there is a thin layer of ice.  However, it starts ...

Using computer models similar to those used to study Earth's oceans, researchers say their findings have important ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

A layer of ice saved them from the depths and allowed scientists a peek into the birth ... providing insight into how some of ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history.

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...