Though no direct evidence of life has been found, models suggest Ceres had hot water shooting into its underground oceans ...

Recently, Earth’s rotation has been speeding up, shortening days by milliseconds. While this change is minor, scientists are ...

Could an ocean – likely needed to sustain life – even survive on a planet orbiting close to a dead star? The sun will someday ...

Beneath the African continent, powerful plumes of molten rock are slowly reshaping the land from below. Scientists studying ...

NASA's SWOT satellite revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents, and tectonics.

The indeterminate nature of the team's results means that JWST is far from finished with TRAPPIST-1e. The researchers hope to ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have found that Earth's atmosphere experienced three major oxygen surges over the past 2 ...

Earth has lost and gained many oceans. Here's where a new one might appear next. Geologic clues from our planet’s distant past reveal that today’s coastlines won’t last forever—but others ...

The Pacific Ocean represents the remnants of the biggest body of water in the planet's history.

New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as ...

The Earth is not flat, but that hasn’t stopped conspiracy theories that argue otherwise. An April 20 Facebook post from ...