Somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, a giant metallic world drifts silently through deep space. Unlike ordinary ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf ...

Hidden warm-water traps beneath Antarctica may be melting the continent’s ice far faster than scientists realized.

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are escalating, creating ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden Antarctic threat that could accelerate global sea level rise far faster than expected.

The movie myth perpetuated by classics like "Total Recall" (1990) and "Mission To Mars" (2000) is that exposure to the vacuum ...

The root beer float is, without exaggeration, one of the best desserts you can get anywhere in New Jersey. The combination of ...

Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch, arguably the world’s first “perfect” manmade wave, breaking in a 2,300-foot rectangular lagoon in Lemoore, California, was originally supposed to be a circular pool.

It might seem like historical science fiction—remember Austin Powers? the legend of Walt Disney?—but cryonics are making a ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than ...