This year's COP30 comes after the international Agreement on Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National ...

NASA's Cassini probe discovered giant geysers erupting from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, revealing a hidden subsurface ocean with a chemistry unlike anything on Earth. Analysis of these space-borne ...

Scientists have found a unique deep-sea vent field off Papua New Guinea where hot hydrothermal fluids and methane-rich gases emerge in tandem, creating an unexpected mix of chemistry and life. Off the ...

While it is well known that climate change is heating the world's oceans, it was thought that the deep sea was safe from its ...

In a patch of the Pacific’s abyssal plain, scientists a surprising phenomenon called “dark oxygen production.” ...

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...

The rocket company founded a quarter-century ago by billionaire Jeff Bezos made history Thursday with the pinpoint landing of ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

A vast ocean chock-full of microbes may have once covered more than a third of Mars's surface, according to a new analysis of ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

ESCAPADE’s path through space, relative to the Earth, has the peculiar shape of a kidney bean. In the world of astrodynamics, ...

A British engineering and research company is unveiling a "subsea human habitat," a base that four people can live and work in for missions of a week or more. It's the first new underwater habitat ...