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How can we predict the future? A good way is to look into the past, and who better to ask than one of Earth’s longest-living animals: the quahog clam. These modest mollusks don’t look like much, but their shells tell a staggering story as they store a record of the environmental conditions across their lifespan. For quahog clams, that can …

A recent study concludes that Uranus’s moon Ariel likely carried a deep, hidden ocean, and that its orbit once stretched enough to split the surface. The analysis ties a pattern of fractures and smooth plains to water under ice and to orbital tugging that loaded the crust until it failed. The modeling points to an orbital eccentricity near …

Recent research, including studies published by Heriot-Watt University and a ScienceDirect report, has uncovered colossal structures buried deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, shedding new light on the birth of this massive water body. This discovery not only confirms earlier theories about the separation of South America and Africa but also suggests the Atlantic may have begun forming earlier than previously …

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New Study Shows Disruption of Ocean Currents That Stabilize the Global Climate  Inside Climate News Turns Out, the Atlantic Ocean Is Going off Balance — and It May Seriously Impact Life on Our Planet  Green Matters North Atlantic temperature and salinity changes are driven by external forcing, underestimated by CMIP6 models  Nature Historic discovery in the Atlantic — Hidden reservoir is about to …

The ocean hidden under the icy shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus harbors complex organic molecules, a study said Wednesday, offering further evidence that the small world could have all the right ingredients to host extraterrestrial life. Just 310 miles wide and invisible to the naked eye, the white, scar-covered Enceladus is one of hundreds of moons orbiting the sixth planet …

It was exactly two decades ago that the Cassini mission discovered that underneath the surface of Enceladus, one of the icy moons of Saturn, there is a deep ocean. Thanks to the mission, we have learned that the moon is releasing geysers into space, forming another ring of Saturn: the E Ring. In those geysers, researchers found evidence of complex …

Ariel, one of Uranus’ icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its frozen crust, according to new research. The findings add to growing evidence that Uranus’ moons could have been ocean worlds in the distant past. At 720 miles (1,159 kilometers) across, Ariel is smaller than many of the moons …

In a groundbreaking discovery, a new species of mollusk, Bathylepeta wadatsumi, was uncovered deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. Situated 19,430 feet (nearly 6 kilometers) below the ocean surface near Japan, this limpet species pushes the boundaries of deep-sea biology. The full study, published in Zoosystematics and Evolution, provides further insights into the species’ anatomy, genetic makeup, and the importance of …

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