The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

As we burn fossil fuels, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is gradually rising, and with it, the planet's ...

Meanwhile, mini-Neptunes are planets with thick hydrogen and helium atmospheres and likely hide ocean oceans under their gas. Since most exoplanets of this mass are mini-Neptunes, Enaiposha’s unique ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean ...

The discovery even led the ETH Zurich announcement to bluntly ask, “Is there a lost world beneath the Pacific Ocean?” Their locations below large water sources — including the western ...

Bathynomus vaderi belongs to a group known as “supergiants,” reaching lengths of 32.5 cm and weighing over a kilogram. So far, this new species has only been found near the Spratly Islands in ...