Water in the great, cold nurseries where stars birth has a cosmic fingerprint. Astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

A massive landmass called Zealandia was submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, and geologists took up the task to map the unknown region.

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Weather information is so commonplace that we do not give it a second thought. But how does this information get to your ...

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are ...

The atmosphere's growing "thirst" for water has made droughts across the globe 40% more severe, new research shows.While lack ...

Researchers measure global impact of AED using real-world observations to better predict and prepare for droughts ...

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of Rhode Island.

Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a simple pencil-and-paper geometry exercise. To ...

but that water doesn’t tend to infiltrate into the soil; much of it becomes runoff that flows overland to the sea. And, as Earth’s temperatures rise, “the areas of the globe that are drying ...