Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and plumes of water erupting from cracks near its south pole.

It is now thought that the source of this anomaly was a phase transition in which one mineral’s structure was altered.

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Enceladus gives researchers a unique window into its subsurface world. The Cassini mission already taught us that plumes of ...

Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its ...

Mars, the red planet we know today as cold, dry, and desolate, might not have always been this way. New research from the ...

2025 marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and NASA's Earth Observatory commemorated the milestone with a satellite-based ...

The world's oceans are racing towards their tipping point with every region now under threat from the triple planetary crisis ...

Some 6. 2 million years ago, the Red Sea basin was not recognizable as the deep blue waters of the ocean it is now.

Antarctica's Southern Ocean is one of the most demanding places on Earth when it comes to survival. Its waters plunge below ...

A new report on the state of the world’s oceans paints a grim picture. The ninth annual Copernicus Ocean State Report finds ...

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow ...