Satellites detected a mysterious gravitational change beneath Earth's surface, suggesting rapid movement of interior masses.

In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...

A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern observations ...

The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a major factor in future sea level rise, a new study suggests. The rising earth beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet will likely become a ...

Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...

Hypothetical questions, like what would happen if everyone on Earth went for an ocean swim at once, are fun to think about. And using math, you can get pretty close to a real answer. Let’s start by ...

On a special episode (first released on October 2, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: Hollywood has long been enamored with end-of-the-world science fiction where asteroids play the leading role. But the ...

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies now sets the odds of impacting Earth on Dec. 22 of that year at 3.1%. That exceeds the threat once posed by Apophis, a much larger asteroid that was ...

TEMPLE, Texas — Scientists have upgraded the threat level of an asteroid that has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that doesn't mean we need to start panicking just yet. The scale ranges ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.