Along a stretch of coast that usually behaves by the book, officials have been grappling with a rare ocean pattern that has ...

New research shows ancient tropical oceans once held more oxygen than cooler regions, reshaping where early life could ...

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

Redwing is autonomous underwater glider expected to circle the world in a little over four years, then return to Cape Cod.

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

Blooming seas were recorded around the Chatham Islands in January 2026, after satellite images showed large swirls of colour spreading across the Pacific Ocean. The remote island group lies far east ...

Satellites detected a mysterious gravitational change beneath Earth's surface, suggesting rapid movement of interior masses.

A series of slowly widening fissures in southern Ethiopia once again drew the attention of scientists and authorities to one ...

The town of Kuroshio in Japan is named after the swift ocean current that flows nearby. The Kuro­shio (Black Stream) stretches as wide as a megacity and carries more water than the Amazon river.

In August 2026, Gradone and Selden will lead a 28-day expedition aboard the R/V Falkor (too), a state-of-the-art research ...

Ocean microbes keep the planet healthy by cycling nutrients and capturing carbon, but a detailed and precise map of where ...

Stare out into the grand expense of the ocean, and it can truly seem endless. Although oceans appear vast and uniform, ...