Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

How many oceans are there? Four, of course. Wrong. While we were busy with the COVID-19 pandemic, NOAA, U.S. Board on ...

The new research, published recently in Nature, used numerical simulations to reconstruct the underwater light environment of ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

SpaceX's Fram2 mission, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's north and south poles, ended when the Crew Dragon capsule ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

Climate models have predicted that the ocean surrounding Antarctica should be warming, but new research shows that it's ...