A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their ...

Here’s a sentence you probably didn’t expect to read today: Thousands of strangers on the internet just collectively named a ...

Beneath the ocean’s rolling surface, there are mountains. Not the snowy peaks you hike, but vast, underwater volcanoes rising from the seafloor. Some tower more than a kilometre high. Some even poke ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was acquired during the planet’s formation.

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...