Recently, Hurricane Melissa roared ashore in Jamaica, leaving behind a trail of destruction that is still being tallied. The ...

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A Falcon 9 rocket topped with an ocean-observing satellite launched into space Sunday night from California's central coast.

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Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain ...

Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...

A billion-dollar international mission to extend humanity’s most precise ocean measurements is about to ride a column of fire ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave discuss new findings about the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus, the secrets behind chameleons' eye movements and the energy use behind AI computing.

Created in 2000 by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin already holds a NASA contract for the third moon landing by ...

Coastal geologist Stan Riggs shares an excerpt from his new book, "Cape Lookout National Seashore: Paradigm For A." ...