Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous. These ...

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Researchers have mapped the molecular changes that unfold as sunlight causes plastics to leach dissolved organic matter, ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the only known celestial body other than Earth to have liquids on its surface, has been ...

Microplastics are scourge of the world’s oceans, but finding where they accumulate could help direct conservation efforts.

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...

Oxygen began entering Earth's oceans around 2.32 billion years ago, and shallow seas followed within a few million years.

Astronomers have identified a massive cloud of water vapor surrounding a distant quasar, marking the largest single reservoir ...

For ages, Earth has been known as a blue planet, a vision largely shaped by the vast oceans that cover three-quarters of its surface. But what if this wasn't always the case, and our oceans used to be ...