The atmosphere is an important transport medium that carries microplastics to even the most remote parts of the world. These ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

New evidence of ancient rivers suggests Mars may have been a "blue planet," thanks to an ocean spanning its entire northern ...

It's the first time the ocean has been factored into the cost of carbon. Scientists have factored damage to the ocean into the social cost of carbon for the first time -- finding it nearly doubles the ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

A long-running study recording changes to the marine environment near Bermuda has had its funding renewed until August 2028. The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences’ Currents newsletter said the US ...

How nutrients from Europa's icy shell reach its ocean has been unclear despite several theories.

A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper-ocean circulation of the equatorial Pacific over the past 30 years. This acceleration is primarily driven by intensified atmospheric ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

Narrow bands of ocean covering just over one-third of the world's seas are responsible for absorbing nearly three-quarters of ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.Related video above: Check out this amazing video of a kayaker paddling ...