This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California made a big discovery for Saturn. Titan-Saturn’s largest ...

The past water year, October 2024 through September 2025, brought the highest Arctic air temperatures since records began 125 years ago, including the warmest autumn ever measured and a winter and a ...

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate.

While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Ocean microbes can use urea when ammonium is scarce. This helps them survive in poor waters and reshapes our view of the nitrogen cycle.

Humanity is running out of time to keep the climate system in a state that resembles the one in which modern societies ...

While prime viewing conditions recently allowed much of the U.S. to catch the northern lights, these spots are the best for ...

The ocean floor is typically home to dead whales, sunken ships, and long-abandoned shopping carts. Mysterious artefacts such ...

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Japan on Monday, according to the United States ...

As a new deep-sea hunt begins for the long-missing MH370, eleven years after the plane went missing, theories continue to ...