Jellyfish hold a peculiar position in the hierarchy of animal charisma. On the one hand, they have a hypnotic elegance as they pulsate through the sea, bringing to mind ballerinas with tentacle tutus, ...

This iridescent rainbow jellyfish looks like the coolest nightlight ever. Known as the lobed comb jelly, its natural habitat is typically the open waters, but a few reside at the Monterey Bay Aquarium ...

Beautiful blue velella jellyfish, also known as the by-the-wind sailor, have started to turn up on Jersey Shore beaches in recent weeks. Scientists say that due to the Gulf Stream's powerful winds ...

Early in June the St. Johns Riverkeeper reported someone seeing “jellyfish” in the St. Johns River near Switzerland Point and sent a picture to support the observation. The “jellyfish” was actually a ...

Floating and drifting along the oceans' currents and coasts are thousands of different kinds of jellyfish. Some, like the lion's mane jellyfish, are bigger than a deep sea diver. Others, including ...

Planetary nebula NGC 2022, located in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter), as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The image was first released on 12 August 2019. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Wade This ...

While typically found in warmer ocean waters, a brilliant blue jellyfish-like creature has been washing up on Jersey Shore beaches over the past week. The Velella velella jellies, also known as ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts. They have ...

Spotting a beautiful jellyfish serenely swimming through near-transparent waters in the canals of Venice would’ve been an unthinkable sight just a few weeks ago, but the global standstill created by ...