For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has been cast as one of the solar system’s best bets for alien life, a world with a global ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

"A powerful milestone for our shared ocean is about to be achieved," writes columnist Dan Haifley. "The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty will go into effect on Jan. 17 after two decades of ...

The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

MAYNARDVILLE, Tenn. — On Dec. 11, 26-year-old Jacob Finch was working in a trench at Big Ridge State Park when it collapsed, burying him and one of his coworkers underground. Finch was left in ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Longtime Marvin Ridge High football coach Aubrey Carter won’t be returning to the Union County school next season. Carter confirmed to The Observer Wednesday that he wouldn’t be back. Carter has ...

Ridge and Brooke threw Eric a surprise retirement party on The Bold and the Beautiful. They agreed that it’s time for him to step down from Forrester Creations, but Eric has no intentions of stepping ...

The submersible Fendouzhe being deployed off a Chinese icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean. Credit: Courtesy of the Fendouzhe Research Team One of the most remote and unexplored parts of the planet has ...

Taylor Swift may be writing her biggest love story yet. Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island — an ultra-luxe resort near a home Swift owns — is suddenly at the center of a celebrity wedding storm.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba and the Meteorological Research Institute have identified how atmosphere–ocean interactions in the midlatitudes reinforce the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM).