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A young boy who was boating with his father off the coast of Catalina Island was hospitalized following a shark bite Wednesday morning.

A couple of La Jolla’s most recognizable residents now have a new home and have even welcomed a little one thanks to a couple of locals’ grand idea that helped them create the nest.

When the SpaceX Dragon launches to the International Space Station this week for its second operational crew mission, an astronaut with ties to San Diego will be at the helm of the spacecraft.

Local surfer waved at a drone that was also video-recording a shark as it swam between her board and her boyfriend’s, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

Local surfer waved at a drone that was also video-recording a shark as it swam between her board and her boyfriend’s

Go on an expedition with two San Diego Marine Researchers and hear them recount the expedition which may have ended with the discovery of a new whale species in the Pacific.

As the threat of wildfires has grown to a staggering level in California, so has its network of high-tech cameras watching the backcountry to spot the first outbreak of flames and help firefighters battle them until they are contained

Before NASA’s first endeavor into space with a private rocket has even launched, the crew for its second joint NASA/SpaceX mission has been selected — and it includes an astronaut with San Diego ties. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, a UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna, will pilot SpaceX’s second Dragon flight to the International Space Station alongside...

As waves crashed against the shoreline in Encinitas on Monday, a bright blue hue overtook the ocean thanks to the return of an unpredictable natural phenomenon.

Bioluminescence created a brilliant, neon blue glow in Encinitas.

It’s no secret that NASA astronaut Jessica Meir is currently in space! Meir, who is active on social media, gives us a peek into her journey.  In her recent Twitter posts, Meir gazes down at the site where she worked on her Scripps Institution of Oceanography studies of elephant seals in collaboration with the University of California Santa Cruz...

Straight out of a horror movie – a frenzy of sharks swarms the shores of San Diego? Not quite. But dozens of usually-harmless leopard sharks returned to La Jolla’s coast just in time for Halloween.

NASA astronauts Jessica Mei and Christina Koch became the first all-female team to spacewalk at ISS.

It’s being called one giant leap for womankind. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch performed the first all-female spacewalk Friday roughly 250 miles up at the International Space Station.

Two San Diego men are thanking their lucky kayaks for taking the brunt of a great white shark bite near Catalina Island over the weekend.

Everton Simpson squints at the Caribbean from his motorboat, scanning the dazzling bands of color for hints of what lies beneath. Emerald green indicates sandy bottoms. Sapphire blue lies above seagrass meadows. And deep indigo marks coral reefs. That’s where he’s headed. He steers the boat to an unmarked spot that he knows as the “coral nursery.” ”It’s like a...

San Diego’s commercial fishing industry is making a comeback, with renewed interest in emerging fisheries, and local ocean-to-table food.

From years of drought to intense storms dumping buckets of rain in a short amount of time: New research revealed Tuesday says changes in California’s weather are about to make it the Wild West.

NBC 7’s reporter Steven Luke talked to Alexander Gershunov from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography about “atmospheric rivers” and the effects of the changing climate in California.