THE search for alien life across our Solar System and beyond has so far kicked up nothing intelligent – let alone microbial.

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

Scientists searching for life beyond Earth often look to ocean worlds like Enceladus, one of Saturn’s icy moons. Enceladus ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

Chemical traces and microbes could break down or transform as they rise, making them unrecognizable by the time they reach ...

But recently scientists have made significant progress in understanding this "ice-ocean boundary layer." This progress is the subject of our new review paper, published today in Annual Reviews.