The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace.

THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE in San Rafael’s poorest community are at a growing risk of being islanded by flood waters, with no ...

At this year's Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first ...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman will launch to the International Space ...

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

Water’s my jam.” Dituri did apply to be an astronaut in 2024; he never heard back. Although he meets current qualifications, ...

Astronomers searched the skies for decades for signs of extraterrestrial life, but in 2023, a Harvard mission looked down, diving a mile into the ocean floor to pursue the vestige of an enigmatic ...

What do we really know about the deep ocean? Whether Earth’s ocean is an ecological paradise teeming with wildlife or a mysterious, stormy underworld hiding mythological sea monsters, it goes ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory. We’ve mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA ’s SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to ...

They also play a role in studying deep-sea currents, tides, and the movements of Earth’s tectonic plates, those massive puzzle pieces of Earth’s crust that shift over millions of years. Experts have ...