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Imagine Flipper trained in the art of espionage.

Is science absolute? Its truths and discoveries guide us toward the nature of reality, but we must always remain open-minded to revisions.

Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.

All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.

The way that the ancient Megalodon adapted to water temperature has important implications for modern marine creatures.

Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.

In the spirit of the 1969 moon landing, we now have a golden opportunity to pursue “nondisruptive” creative solutions.

Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.

We know more about the universe than what is beneath our feet. But Earth’s mantle holds subtle clues about our planet’s past.

Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.

What we’ve learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.

Finding out we’re not alone in the Universe would fundamentally change everything. Here’s how we could do it.

Physicists have yet to pinpoint the hypothetical matter that keeps galaxies from flying apart. Now they have a new focus.

A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.

On Earth, microbial growth is common in lava tubes no matter the location and climate, whether it’s ice-volcano interactions in Iceland or hot, sand-floored lava tubes in Saudi Arabia.

A 2020 study revived a longstanding controversy over Christopher Columbus’ claims of marauding cannibals in the Caribbean.

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?

Sunita Sah hopes that by redefining defiance, we can build societies that allow people to live more authentic lives.

On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.

Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.

The largest moon in our Solar System, often overlooked, is a water-rich world. Does that mean life? Here on Earth, life took hold very early on in our planet’s history, and […]

Is the vast “Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area” the final resting place of Genghis Khan?

Cosmic inflation is the state that preceded and set up the hot Big Bang. Here’s what the Universe was like during that time period.

We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.

Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.

Lake Baikal holds nearly one-fourth of Earth’s fresh surface water and is the most scientifically interesting lake on our planet.

As far as we know, it’s only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.

Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?

Scientists captured it on footage 1.5 miles below the surface.

These distant cousins of starfish live on sea floors around the globe.