In a remarkable discovery off the western coast of the Galápagos Islands, scientists have pinpointed a previously unknown ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has allowed scientists to determine, for the first time, the pH level of the ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus — and it turns out to be highly alkaline, ...

Brilliant blue mono-dispersed ZnS QDs have been synthesized using hydrothermal synthesis. The synthetic procedure provides some advantageous synthetic features such as a short preparation time with ...

Some plants can photosynthesise using nightglow, traditionally comprising moonlight, starlight and the light reflected from ...

The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where Elizabeth Claire Alberts is a fellow. On ...

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) recently announced rule changes that would accelerate deep-sea mining in ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

The pH scale is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, 1 being highly acidic, 14 being highly alkaline, and 7 ...