Moons and asteroids with a global ocean are tending to become relatively common objects in the Solar System. There have been at least nine and now ten with Saturn’s tiny (250 mile across Mimas). Give ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Vitas Carosella covers sports and society with a focus on climate. World Ocean Day is celebrated every year on June 8th and has ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, Ceres appeared dry and rocky, its surface marked by craters and dents. For ...

Ever since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully dropped off samples taken from the asteroid Bennu in September, scientists have been poring over results from the precious cargo, the largest cache ...

From shorelines to screens, World Oceans Day is making waves today with the 2025 theme, Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us. This movement calls people to reflect on the ocean’s role in supporting all ...

A planet just 70 light-years away has garnered quite a bit of attention from scientists. A group of astronomers uncovered the planet using data they picked up from the James Webb Space Telescope. Now, ...

There are five oceans recognized in the world, with the Southern Ocean being the most recent. While COVID had our attention, agencies around the world were setting boundaries and officially ...

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 ...

7 June 2024 - Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, produce over half of the world’s oxygen, regulate the climate and absorb nearly one-third of the carbon dioxide generated by human ...

The global ocean heat content increased yet again in 2025, further raising the risk of catastrophic storms, sea-level rise, and coral bleaching. Reading time 3 minutes It would take roughly 365 ...

A recent study published in Nature Astronomyhas provided compelling evidence for a frozen ocean world on the dwarf planet Ceres, situated within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Utilizing ...