Without the world’s oceans, Earth would just be another rock hurtling through space. As surfers we’ve figured out how to have a hell of a lot of fun in the water, but of course, there’s much more to ...

“Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet. I think sometimes people think of small, lumpy things as asteroids (and most of them are!), but Ceres really looks more like a ...

The Investigating Ocean Worlds (InvOW) project will measure organic compounds across three domains: the subseafloor (A), the ocean (B), and the cryosphere (C), with a goal of helping NASA apply what ...

For years, planetary scientists treated Titan as an ocean world in disguise, a frozen shell hiding a vast global sea of liquid water. Now a fresh look at old spacecraft data is overturning that ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A tiny, ice-encrusted ocean world orbiting Saturn is now a hotter-than-ever candidate for potential life. NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected hydrogen molecules in the ...

Seattle and Western Washington are inseparable from the ocean. Maybe you fish or forage from it, kayak or sail on it, surf its swells, hike and camp along its coast, or simply enjoy the sight of the ...

There are five oceans recognized in the world, with the Southern Ocean being the most recent. While COVID had our attention, agencies around the world were setting boundaries and officially ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, Ceres appeared dry and rocky, its surface marked by craters and dents. For ...

Award-winning underwater photographer, writer, ocean conservationist and diver Pier Nirandara. It isn’t often that you meet someone as accomplished as Pier Nirandara, who got a jump-start at a very ...

Each year on World Ocean Day, observed globally on June 8, we are reminded of the urgent environmental challenges confronting our oceans – from rising sea levels projected to impact over 200 million ...

The global ocean heat content increased yet again in 2025, further raising the risk of catastrophic storms, sea-level rise, and coral bleaching. Reading time 3 minutes It would take roughly 365 ...