A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

For decades, Pluto was thought to be just another frozen rock spinning around the Sun, far from the action and mystery of the ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

Learn how ice crystallizes on the surface of Europa, a moon of Jupiter, may hold promise for signs of extraterrestrial life ...

The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean ...

In chaos terrains like Tara Regio, the presence of strange chemicals—including table salt and carbon dioxide—suggests that ...

Alumnus William "Monty" Graham, the new director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center—one of the nation's leading ...

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

During their brief encounter, the researchers used a laser to measure the squid's size and observed its behavior in the wild.

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid.

New lab experiments and James Webb Telescope data show Europa’s icy surface constantly changing due to heat and cosmic ...