Day: September 26, 2026

Marine ecologists used to call them “black puddles of death.” Just a decade ago, blue-green deep-sea brine pools were assumed to be oxygen-depleting dead zones, despite the wealth of deeply strange and extraterrestrial “extremophiles” that biologists have found living at their margins. But something was alive inside these phenomenally salty underwater lakes, and now researchers … Read more

In the enduring search for life in the universe, new evidence is pointing researchers toward Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Enceladus is Saturn’s sixth largest moon with a diameter roughly equal to the width of Arizona, and is believed to have a huge underground ocean that spews columns of water into space. Enceladus, one of 145 known … Read more