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© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Three Chinese astronauts in space station Tiangong held a video chat with students in Beijing, Hong Ko

More hurricanes are likely to slam Connecticut as the planet continues warming due to greenhouse gas emissions, according to a study led by Yale University researchers.

Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in certain pockets where oxygen naturally plummets and waters become unlivable for most aerobic organisms. These desolate pools are “oxygen-deficient zones,” or ODZs. And though they make up les

A large expanse of black rocky glass littering a Chilean desert remained a mystery for a decade, but Brown University experts already have proven that an exploding comet created it.

Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in certain pockets where oxygen naturally plummets and waters become unlivable for most aerobic

MIT scientists built a 3D atlas of the ocean’s oxygen-starved waters that could help predict oceanic response to climate change.

One of the oxygen-depleted zones is nearly as large as 750,000 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools. That's billion, with a B.

A vast swath of dark rocky glass in a Chilean desert was a mystery until researchers found it was an exploding comet that melted the sand below.

SCIENTISTS believe that there could be potential lifeforms "unlike anything we've seen" living in the clouds aboveVenus, according to a new stud

A team of researchers has put forward a new theory suggesting possible life on the planet Venus could be making the environment more hospitable.