"Shorelines are great locations to look for evidence of past life." Today, Mars is a chilly desert of rock and dust — but 4 billion years ago, the planet had rivers, lakes and even oceans with sandy ...

Astronomers have identified an ultra-light exoplanet orbiting the star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years from Earth. While ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as 'ringwoodite'. Scientists previously discovered that water is stored inside mantle rock in a sponge-like ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

“We found evidence for wind ... add to the increasing evidence that the red planet once had a warmer, wetter climate as well as an ocean that covered one-third of the Martian surface ...

Cardenas and his collaborators have previously found evidence of lush streams of water carving channels and craters into the planet's surface ... could have been an ocean and to see what we ...

Researchers have found at least 866 new marine species as part of a global mission to protect and accelerate the discovery of ...

The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census is the world's largest mission to accelerate the discovery of ocean life. Despite covering over 70% of our planet, the ocean remains one of the least explored ...

“The ocean covers 71% of our planet, yet it is said that only around 10% of marine life has been discovered so far, leaving an estimated 1–2 million species still undocumented,” said ...