and about 90% of the excess heat caused by emissions from burning fossil fuels and other human activities is absorbed by the ocean. But while it’s clear that the ocean has been warming for quite ...

One of Jupiter’s biggest moons has the potential to harbour life in a subsurface sea. The nature of its core will provide ...

However, the extraordinary impacts the planet has witnessed – including extreme weather, heat waves, wildfires, coral bleaching and ecosystem destruction – point to a need to swiftly reduce carbon ...

In fact, every decade since 1984, when satellite recordkeeping of ocean temperatures started, has been warmer than the previous one. The global ocean’s surface temperature was still well above average ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The Castaways airs nightly on Channel 5 with the finale episode airing on Thursday, 30 January at 9pm. Shortly after airing ...

Warming ocean water also affects temperatures on land by changing weather patterns. Climate change, by and large, takes the blame. Greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere trap heat ...

Dr. Jesse Abrams from the University of Exeter said we are “grossly underestimating risk due to climate change and ...

Under the Pacific Ocean, hidden material was discovered in Earth’s mantle. So we have sunken, ancient worlds down there, and ...

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

Scientists have been split on whether it resulted from external factors—such as a collision with a huge, moon-sized ...