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A new tuna robot leads the way to more agile underwater robots and drones.

The pulse took just 35 hours to cover the whole world.

Far from being a “dead” pursuit that focuses on old ideas, modern philosophy proposes and debates important, new concepts. All of us can learn from it.

Icebergs aren’t just a threat to unsinkable ships. Their ability to cause underwater landslides poses a danger to coastal cities.

The universe’s largest seismometer reveals clues about the Gas Giant’s interior.

The findings at L’Anse aux Meadows mark the the earliest known year by which human migration had encircled the planet.

To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.

There will always be “wolf-criers” whose claims wither under scrutiny. But aliens are certainly out there, if science dares to find them.

A black woman most have never heard of made GPS possible. Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable […]

Venus has far more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth, which turned our sister planet into an inferno. But how did it get there?

The organisms were anchored to a boulder 900 meters beneath the ice, living a cold, dark existence miles away from the open ocean.

On December 19 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the Apollo 17 lunar mission. They were the last people to travel […]

Space planes could radically lower the cost of spaceflight.

One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.

The apes taught sign language didn’t understand what they were doing. They were merely “aping” their caretakers.

With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.

An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.

Oxygen is thought to be a biomarker for extraterrestrial life, but there are at least three different ways that a lifeless planet can produce it.

Forty Starlink satellites were destroyed earlier this year in a geomagnetic storm.

We’re used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?

Metal-like materials have been discovered in a very strange place.

In ancient Greece, the Olympics were never solely about the athletes themselves.

Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.

Long before Alexandria became the center of Egyptian trade, there was Thônis-Heracleion. But then it sank.

Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.

“Don’t tread on me” is a slogan of the deep sea, too.

A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.

Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.

One of the world’s most isolated island groups has just been made one of the world’s largest ocean reserves.

Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.