Scientists discovered Movile Cave in Romania, a world sealed for 5.5 million years. Life thrives there without sunlight, using chemicals fo...

Scientists have discovered deep-sea and underground microbial ecosystems thriving without sunlight, powered by hydrogen gas produced throug...

A dead whale sinking to the ocean floor creates a unique deep-sea ecosystem.: this whale fall provides food for scavengers, then enriches s...

The Axial Seamount, a massive underwater volcano off Oregon’s coast, may soon erupt again. Known as the region’s most active submarine volc...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock, Cheyava Falls, on Mars that may hold clues to past life, though scientists emphasize no li...

The environment in these oceans may be very similar to that on Earth at the time life began.

Until now, it was widely thought that meteorites that bombarded early Earth were primarily responsible for the presence of "bioavailable" p...

New York, March 31 (IANS) While the surface conditions on Venus are known to be inhospitable, with temperatures soaring above 450 degrees C...

NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn and Hubble Space Telescope are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Washington, April 14 (IANS) Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has a form of chemical energy that life can feed on, researchers with NASAs Cassini...

Washington, April 14 (IANS) Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has a form of chemical energy that life can feed on, researchers with NASA's Cassin...

Large comets and asteroids that bombarded Mars some 4 billion years ago likely enhanced climate conditions enough to make the red planet mo...

With a size similar to a regular sea cucumber, the first mysterious creature broke into three parts when it was taken to the vessel in the ...

The project involves exploring the Indian Ocean for 120 days, reflects China's hunger for resources, and its long-term development plans.

Earlier China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said the discovery of poly metallic deposits in the southwest Indian Ocean as "beyond an...

China's deep-sea manned submersible today carried out its first dive in the southwest Indian Ocean to look for deposits of copper, zinc and...

For the first time, scientists have claimed to have discovered animals that live without oxygen deep under the Mediterranean Sea.