Billions of years ago, our planet looked very different, including its coloring. New research suggests that early oceans were ...

While forests and farmland expanded their role in capturing carbon, ocean algae began to struggle, especially in tropical waters. This shift is changing the balance of life on Earth, with land ...

Between 2003 and 2021, Earth saw a net boost in photosynthesis, mainly thanks to land plants thriving in warming, wetter ...

A Chinese-led research team captures pictures of life at depths of more than 9km in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

A study spanning six years, which tracked whale songs, found that climate change is silencing one of the ocean's loudest ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft just aced a key radar test while flying past Mars, proving its ability to detect structures ...

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

New research sheds light on the overlooked contribution of the ocean’s most abundant fish to marine carbon cycling. The ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada.

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot enough ...