New microwave measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal Europa’s ice shell may stretch nearly 29 km (18 miles) deep, ...

The line where ocean meets air has always looked fragile, a knife-edge boundary stretched over crushing depths and shifting ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It's easy to imagine the ...

A thick shell "implies a longer route that oxygen and nutrients would have to travel to connect Europa’s surface with its ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the ...

Algae blooms are expanding across the world's oceans. The first global study of floating algae was recently released by ...

“How thick the ice shell is and the existence of cracks or pores within the ice shell are part of the complex puzzle for understanding Europa’s potential habitability,” said Scott Bolton, principal ...

Deep beneath the waves, something is shifting. Life once drawn to sunken whales and wood is missing, leaving the seafloor ...

Microbial communities are central to the degradation and transformation of organic matter in marine as well as in freshwater ecosystems. Through their ...

Washington State University geophysicists offer new ideas on how Jupiter’s Moon Euro could provide for life from above.

How nutrients from Europa's icy shell reach its ocean has been unclear despite several theories.

In 1984, a longstanding three‑mile ban on bottom trawling around much of Scotland’s coast was repealed. Fish landings in ...