Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

By analyzing these cores, researchers have discovered patterns of climate change, including ice ages and interglacial periods ...

Eddies are large, rotating currents that contribute to ocean mixing and transport of heat and salt in seawater. Importantly, ...

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising ...

Slightly larger asteroids may make it through the atmosphere but often crash at locations that cause minimal or no immediate ...

The frigid stream of air that plunged down into the Central U.S. this week is breaking cold records from South Dakota to Texas, with temperatures in the single digits setting records in many locations ...

Andrew Babbin tries to pack light for work trips. Along with the travel essentials, though, he also brings a roll each of ...

We use sequence-based approaches, flow cytometry, modeling, and other techniques to explore the structure and function of microbial communities. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, ...

focused largely on the mechanical interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean. In future studies, Aluie plans to investigate the role eddies play in transporting energy between the oceans ...

‘What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,’ Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of ...

A massive 500,000-mile-wide (800,000-kilometer) coronal hole in the sun's atmosphere is unleashing a stream of fast-moving solar wind toward Earth, potentially supercharging auroras on Jan. 31 and ...