Perched along California’s Highway 1, where the Santa Lucia Mountains make a dramatic plunge into the Pacific Ocean, exists a viewpoint so spectacular it feels like nature is showing off.

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

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 ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

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

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...

Perspective is everything, but these curious maps might give a whole new approach to the weird and wonderful world that we ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

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.

The Sentinel-6B satellite arrives in California for launch, ready to measure sea level with unprecedented climate accuracy.

With increasing pressures from overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change, the health of the world’s ...

As sea ice vanishes, polar ocean currents are stirring faster - reshaping heat, carbon, and nutrient flow across the Arctic and Antarctic.