Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...

From shorelines to screens, World Oceans Day is making waves today with the 2025 theme, Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us. This movement calls people to reflect on the ocean’s role in supporting all ...

There are gas giant planets bigger than Jupiter, and extremely hot planets that orbit so close to their stars that a year lasts just a few days. There are ocean worlds, and many moons and bodies that ...

For decades, Europa has been cast as one of the Solar System’s best bets for alien biology, a frozen world hiding a global ...

The Arctic Ocean has always been a region that’s fascinated University of Delaware doctoral student Tianyu Zhou. While most of humanity lives in the world’s temperate zone, the polar ocean seems like ...

Cutting-edge ROVs and ocean-mapping drones helped to find and identify the long-lost wreck of the World War II-era Japanese destroyer Teruzuki, rewriting history in the process. Jesse Orrall ...

Pioneering marine biologist Sylvia Earle grew up along the sea—the right place for the right person to begin a prolific career built on exploring and protecting the ocean. To date, Earle has led more ...

Exploring peaks, depths, seas, and poles, China notches concrete progress in natural resources technologies during 2021-2025 ...

Some of the littlest organisms in the ocean wield incredible influence, both on their ecosystems and on the planet. Like plants do on land, phytoplankton absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide and expel ...

Melody MacReady is a writer and transwoman (she/her), passionate about all things pop culture-related. From movies to shows to games to comic books, there is not much that she does not enjoy or ...