New data from NASA has revealed a troubling trend: in 2024, global sea levels rose at a faster-than-expected rate, surprising ...

NASA just made a discovery that could change everything: an underground ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. With the potential ...

The pH scale is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, 1 being highly acidic, 14 being highly alkaline, and 7 ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Ocean Worlds Water in the Solar System and Beyond The story of oceans is the story of life. Oceans define our home planet, covering the majority of Earth’s surface and driving the water cycle that ...

A mission that will investigate the potential habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system — Jupiter’s moon Europa — has lifted off.

NASA's about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring voluminous seas. Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter's moon Europa contains an ocean at least twice the size of Earth's. The Europa ...

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

Bad news from the Pacific Ocean. A capsule from German aerospace company The Exploration Company, Nyx, was the one that ...

A capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company crash-landed in the ocean with a payload that included ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...

As part of a rideshare mission with SpaceX, the Nyx capsule launched from the Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 23rd. The ...