Once a star reaches the end of its life stage and becomes a red giant, any chance for life is extinguished. This is also true ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news that the world’s oceans are freezing—not from the wind-chilled surface, but from ...

Every year from March to June, the bay and shoreline become inundated with millions of these three-inch squid, which come up from the ocean depths to breed. As they fill the waters and beaches ...

Basketball went from a sport that some girls in town played to the sport for young girls in Manasquan, and the seven other ...

Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four miles below the surface. In 2018, Anders Hallan, a research associate ...

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

Alumnus William "Monty" Graham, the new director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center—one of the nation's leading ...

Scientists on a research expedition in the Southern Ocean captured the first footage of a living Gonatus antarcticus squid.

During their brief encounter, the researchers used a laser to measure the squid's size and observed its behavior in the wild.

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...