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.

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Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

Planetary scientists don’t care about Mimas, Saturn’s smallest moon. Sure, its massive Herschel ... station is also evidence that it may be an ocean world capable of supporting life.

Each day, as the Earth turns, the moon tugs upon the oceans of the world, causing the rise and fall of tides. As a result, the Earth's day gets a little bit longer, and the moon gets a little more ...