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 ...

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 ...

During their brief encounter, the researchers used a laser to measure the squid's size and observed its behavior in the wild.

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

Often encompassing large swaths of ocean (and even lakes and ponds), dead zones become oceanic deserts, devoid of the usual aquatic biodiversity. Though hypoxic zones can occur naturally ...

In chaos terrains like Tara Regio, the presence of strange chemicals—including table salt and carbon dioxide—suggests that ...

New lab experiments and James Webb Telescope data show Europa’s icy surface constantly changing due to heat and cosmic ...

The ice on the surface of Jupiter's massive moon Europa is constantly changing, hinting at the presence of a subsurface ocean ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. This phenomena, the team explained, is heightened in so-called ...

In commemoration of Hawaiʻi Water Safety Day on May 14, Ocean Safety officers were recognized for their work in responding to 355 ocean rescues in Maui County last year. This included 245 rescues ...