If atmospheric temperatures rise, the hydrate stability zone will shift upward, leaving in its stead a layer of methane gas that has been freed from the hydrate cages. Pressure in that new layer ...

A North Atlantic rescue mission undertaken by at least four countries found that the submersible was destroyed by a likely implosion, scattering its debris on the ocean floor near the doomed ...

As the years go by, the chances of Europa hosting life seem to keep going down. But it's not out of contention yet.

Many of the factors that made the multiday search for the vessel so difficult are also the reasons a comprehensive exploration of the ocean floor ... the pressure increases by one atmosphere ...

Europa has long intrigued scientists because the moon has a subsurface ocean beneath a thick shell ... up to 25,000 times the standard atmospheric pressure. The team was able to observe this ...

Europa’s atmosphere, vanishingly thin compared with ... surface could even hint at hydrothermal vents on the moon’s ocean floor, a tantalizing but as yet unconfirmed prospect that would ...