This month, AFP reported from OceanXplorer, a high-tech marine research vessel owned by billionaire-backed nonprofit OceanX, ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

The Carteret, N.J., resident learned about ocean gliders – autonomous vehicles that collect scientific data and use a ...

Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

A severe winter storm sweeping across the central and eastern U.S. in late January 2026 is threatening states from Texas to ...

A new program puts scientists and storytellers aboard Sea Dragon to connect adventure sailing with ocean conservation. The ...

"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 ...

The key to future technologies can sometimes be found in the past. What Ravi Kishore is working to perfect, for example, has ...

Scientists exploring the South China Sea's Dragon Hole, a deep underwater sinkhole, discovered a thriving microbial world and ...