The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.

The ocean twilight zone, also known as the mesopelagic zone, is a layer of the ocean located between 200 and 1,000 meters ...

The innermost planet of our solar system, Mercury, is barely wider than the continental United States, and is often seen as a ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

There are very few remains of ancient ships, except in one unusual place: the Black Sea has a unique environment that ...

The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

Marinoan global glaciation lasting 4 million years confirmed; stable ice defies current climate models and biological ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...