Jupiter’s moon Europa has long looked like a frozen cue ball, its bright shell of ice hiding a global ocean that many astrobiologists see as one of the most promising places for life beyond Earth. New ...

From our perspective, the Earth is pretty darn big and for most people, there is a massive amount of land to explore. After all, you can travel for days at a time without every running into an ocean, ...

Life at sea -- The message from the mud : making meaning out of microbes in Monterey Bay -- Dissolving the tree of life : alien kinship at hydrothermal vents -- Blue-green capitalism : marine ...