Light pillars have been observed across West Michigan during the night. Cold temperatures and snow flurries help create this ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

Understanding the relationship between humans and the ocean is crucial for making informed and effective decisions that will ...

Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in Oregon, which lies in a volcanic crater and is fed by rain and snow, ...

Overlooking the Pacific coast near the Costa Rican town of Tamarindo, The Point is a beautifully redesigned seaside estate.

The scary-looking fish is usually to be found more than a mile below the surface, where little to no light penetrates.

Kayaking in glowing waters is a hot, new travel trend. Here's a collection of destinations in America to scope out the ...

A growing energy imbalance — driven by greenhouse gases and decreased reflection of sunlight — is causing the oceans to warm at an accelerating rate. This phenomenon played a major role in record ...

Scientists recently reported an unexpected deep-sea development in the Pacific: certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean. This ...

Why Trust Us? What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word light? It’s likely some-thing with a positive association—like the phrase “see the light,” for example ...

The Earth’s ice helps reflect sunlight back towards space. Loss of sea ice increases heat in the Arctic. Now, scientists have found that the rate of the ocean’s warming has more than ...

Earth’s oceans caught a fever in March 2023 that has yet to break. Since then, the bathwater-like conditions have killed corals in a record-breaking mass bleaching event, fueled hurricanes ...