Scientists had a mixed response to the announcement of biosignatures spotted on an alien exoplanet. A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around ...

The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth with a volume of 1.3 billion cubic kilometres of water and reaching nearly 11,000 metres in depth at its deepest point, the Challenger Deep in the Marianas ...

This exoplanet may be the best place to look for signs of life beyond the Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a Canadian-led research team has discovered that a nearby exoplanet could ...

When NASA’s Europa Clipper left Earth in October 2024, it carried more than fuel, cameras, and radar. Bolted to the spacecraft is a thin triangular metal plate that holds millions of names, a ...

Scientists believe they have finally established the truth behind one of the world’s greatest deep sea mysteries. Back in 2011, Swedish explorers Peter Lindberg and Denis Asberg were combing the ...

Searching for aliens is a tricky business. Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus.

For years, planetary scientists treated Titan as an ocean world in disguise, a frozen shell hiding a vast global sea of liquid water. Now a fresh look at old spacecraft data is overturning that ...