The Santa Barbara Channel is a hotbed of biodiversity, thanks to the many species whose ranges meet and overlap in the area.

Two new studies from researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography provide encouraging news about California's beaches at both ...

July’s Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) rule, for example, permits simplified flight controls on ...

California beaches usually lose width during El Niño years, because the larger, more powerful waves associated with El Niño years in California rip sand from beaches and carry it offshore. The ...

NASA's Sentinel 6B lifts off from rain-soaked California to deliver the most precise data yet on rising seas, sparking debate ...

Well before its Sunday night trek to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base , a joint U.S.-European satellite to monitor the world’s oceans had already ...

The Sentinel-6B is the second of two satellites in a $1 billion program to monitor sea levels over a full decade.

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...

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

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found ...

Liftoff is scheduled for Monday, November 17, at 12:21 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ...