A groundbreaking discovery has been made on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, raising the possibility of alien life! For centuries, humanity has wondered if we're alone in the universe, and now, experts ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news that the world’s oceans are freezing—not from the wind-chilled surface, but from ...

When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ...

Whereas Io is the poster child for this mechanism, tidal heating also heats many other worlds, including Io’s neighbor, the icy moon Europa, where the heat is thought to sustain a subterranean ...

Basketball went from a sport that some girls in town played to the sport for young girls in Manasquan, and the seven other ...

Rare footage captures a living Antarctic Gonate squid drifting in the dark depths of the ocean, revealing its elusive behavior for the first time.

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four miles below the surface. In 2018, Anders Hallan, a research associate ...

Viking® ( today announced that 14 new ocean itineraries exploring the Mediterranean, United Kingdom, Ireland and Scandinavia ...

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

Alumnus William "Monty" Graham, the new director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center—one of the nation's leading ...