From more than 400 miles above Earth, NASA is tracking some of the planet’s smallest life forms drifting just beneath the ocean’s surface to monitor how global warming affects ocean health. The ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- NASA has been tracking the impacts of climate in a place you might not expect the agency to do research. The work is being done in and over the ocean. "When you think NASA you ...

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with an ocean-observing satellite launched into space Sunday night from California's central coast.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the ocean-observing Sentinel-6B satellite at 5.21 am UTC Monday (9.21 pm PST Sunday) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, according to NASA.

A NASA satellite launch is scheduled to take place today, but this isn't any old project. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite will track the vast majority of water on Earth for the ...

NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest ...

An artist's conception of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft flying by Jupiter's moon Europa. Some 480 million miles away, an ocean — harboring perhaps twice the water of Earth's seas — sloshes beneath ...

A view of the icy, cracked surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA's about to launch a huge spacecraft to a world harboring voluminous seas. Planetary scientists suspect Jupiter's moon Europa contains ...

The tsunami struck Russia's Kuril-Kamchatka Peninsula 70 minutes after a 8.8 earthquake.

New evidence from an old NASA mission supports the theory that Jupiter's moon Callisto is in fact an ocean world. Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely has a ...

One of NASA's gigantic science balloons developed a leak a mere day and a half into its flight, causing it to plummet into the Pacific Ocean, not far from the New Zealand coast. While teams on the ...

The ocean on Ganymede may have more water than all the water on Earth. In this artist’s concept, the moon Ganymede orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae on ...