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

A new study on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, reveals that the physics of its ocean might prevent evidence of deep-sea life ...

Helm, then a fledgling marine biologist about to begin her PhD research, recognized the organism as a by-the-wind sailor (Velella vellela), a jellyfish-like creature with a rigid sail to ferry it ...

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.

Ocean ecosystems play a critical role in carbon ... protect animals with shells or external skeletons. In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses, microscopic marine ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...