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

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

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

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 ...

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 ...

During their brief encounter, the researchers used a laser to measure the squid's size and observed its behavior in the wild.

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...