A NASA probe, the length of a basketball court, is headed to the tantalizing world Europa. Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is ...

From subsurface oceans on frozen moons to water vapor in extraterrestrial atmospheres, NASA's findings are redefining what we ...

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Changing sea levels will affect everyone on our planet, and NASA has been monitoring these trends for decades. As global temperatures increase, the ocean responds by expanding. Factoid: Ocean levels ...

NASA’s satellites have been photographing the open ocean. Three oceanographers from Duke used this data to examine how the ...

Europa Clipper will serve as NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system, and it aims to determine whether the moon could be habitable for life ...

A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is ...

NASA's about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring voluminous seas.. Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter's moon Europa contains an ocean at least twice the size of Earth's. The Europa ...

For centuries, scientists have known that oceans move and swirl, shifting water across the planet. But recent breakthroughs ...

As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to ...

NASA had a pretty good idea of where the space rock impacted the ocean, but actually finding any debris was still a long shot. Now it’s beginning to look like the expedition has paid off .