The "cold seep" ecosystem research facility will be located 2,000 meters (6,560 feet) beneath the surface of the highly ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

"Fasten Your Space Belts" could be part of a spaceflight one-two punch today. SpaceX plans to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today, during a nearly 3.5-hour window that ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

A rare deep-sea fish was recently found on a beach in Mexico. Video from Feb. 9 showed the long, silvery fish washing onto the shores of Playa El Quemado, a beach in Baja California Sur.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison." ...

The gas giant WASP 121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

NASA is using its human spaceflight experience on the space station to figure out what types of medical events happen in ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.