The four billion tons of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in ...

Historically, there have been four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. On Feb. 9, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced the Gulf of Mexico had officially been changed to ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an exotic world with methane rivers, icy terrain, and a thick, hazy atmosphere. Its unique ...

If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a ...

Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...

Arctic sea ice hit a historic low this winter, shrinking to the smallest extent ever recorded at its seasonal peak. NASA and ...

The last crew to return to Earth via a Pacific splashdown were the three NASA astronauts of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission.

The first four humans to orbit over Earth's north and south poles have safely returned to Earth.