In late 2025, scientists reported that for the first time, they were able to detect concentrations of plastic pollution on ...

Captured by NASA satellite on January 10, 2026, the bloom appeared as swirls of green and blue, an unmistakable sign of a ...

NASA scientists are beginning to examine ocean trash from a new perspective, not from ships or beaches, but from orbit. The ...

NASA’s EMIT sensor uses imaging spectroscopy and spectral libraries to support large-scale tracking of plastic and other marine debris from space.

This image of the Atlantic Ocean around Florida, the Bahamas, and Cuba was taken from the International Space Station in 2024 ...

NASA satellites captured huge green-blue ocean rings near New Zealand’s Chatham Islands which was caused by seasonal phytoplankton blooms. This attracts wildlife and reveal the ocean’s hidden ...

Far off the New England coast, one of Earth’s rarest mammals is surviving on a food source so small it usually slips past human eyes. By zooming in from orbit, NASA has now turned that invisible ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...