New research has discovered the massive anchors and chains used by cruise ships are destroying the previously undisturbed ocean floor that surrounds the icy continent.

Once a star reaches the end of its life stage and becomes a red giant, any chance for life is extinguished. This is also true ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news that the world’s oceans are freezing—not from the wind-chilled surface, but from ...

NASA's discoveries reveal water's prevalence beyond Earth, from subsurface oceans on moons to vapor in exoplanet atmospheres.

Every year from March to June, the bay and shoreline become inundated with millions of these three-inch squid, which come up from the ocean depths to breed. As they fill the waters and beaches ...

Basketball went from a sport that some girls in town played to the sport for young girls in Manasquan, and the seven other ...

Emperor penguin populations are falling much faster than expected. Ice is melting beneath their chicks before they’re ready.

C? Scientists warn that a collapse of the Gulf Stream — part of a vital ocean system known as the AMOC — could flip Britain ...

A three-foot-long Antarctic gonate squid was spotted swimming 7,000 feet below the surface of the Southern Ocean ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four miles below the surface. In 2018, Anders Hallan, a research associate ...

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

Alumnus William "Monty" Graham, the new director of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center—one of the nation's leading ...