Astronomers have a lot of thoughts about the latest paper claiming we’ve found the strongest hints of alien life yet on the distant planet K2 18b.

SWOT satellite lets scientists observe small-scale eddies and waves for the first time A NASA-led satellite mission has ...

While hydrofoils lift out of the water thanks to an underwater fin, hydroplanes zoom along by riding directly on the surface ...

Extra-hot oceans could spawn monster storms. Researchers worry that cuts at the agency will interrupt the flow of data for ...

The deep sea holds many secrets, with more than 80% of it being unmapped, unexplored, and unseen by any human in history. The ...

Mars, the dusty red planet we know today, may have once had ocean waves washing onto sandy beaches. New research using data from China’s Zhurong rover has uncovered underground evidence of ancient ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Transpolar Drift, a major Arctic current, is far more dynamic than once thought. As ...

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.