The discovery of this massive subterranean ocean opens up new avenues for scientific exploration and raises intriguing ...

If you’re planning on visiting Pluto anytime soon, best to bring some warm boots. A frigid, possibly “slushy” subsurface ocean could be lurking under the crust of the dwarf planet.

Now, in “The Underworld,” she dives into the subterranean ocean world — the waters below 600 feet deep — traversing the planet to talk with marine biologists, ...

Scientists say water from the ocean, inside a rock called ringwoodite near earth's core, could have oozed to the surface to form our seas. ... The recent discovery of a subterranean sea, ...

Our first strong evidence for a subterranean ocean on Europa came from NASA’s Galileo mission, which explored Jupiter and its moons in the late 1990s.

The ocean would be too young to mark the moon’s surface, but lurking beneath would be a subterranean ocean with freezing temperatures giving way to warmer waters closer to the seafloor, ...

It is believed that under the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa there lies a vast subterranean ocean, and that this ocean could possibly sustain life within it. What could be more appropriate for ...

And where there’s water, there’s a chance of life. Scientists have suspected for decades that a subterranean ocean might slosh between the rocky mantle and icy crust of Ganymede, the largest ...

An ultraviolet light show is the best evidence that Ganymede has a gigantic ocean beneath its icy surface. Images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of the aurorae in the moon's tenuous ...

The heating wouldn't have been enough to melt all the way to the surface — the outer 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) or so has stayed frozen — but as the subterranean ocean warmed, it expanded and ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus is only 300 miles wide—it would fit between New York City and Charlottesville, Va.