Each year, vast blooms of phytoplankton spread across the Southern Ocean, drawing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ...

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may ...

The Atlantic Ocean may “soon” be swallowed up by a vast chain of colliding tectonic plates that has been ominously dubbed the “Ring of Fire,” scientists warn. The tectonic plate underneath Africa has ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow into an ocean? New research from the University of Arkansas found strong ...

Ocean life was devastated by a deadly land-sea “tag team” 100 million years ago, reveals new research. A string of catastrophic environmental events triggered "mass extinctions" of marine species, say ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

Chinese scientists have uncovered a vast and previously unknown hydrothermal field at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, revealing massive craters filled with hydrogen and life. As detailed in a recent ...

Several earthquakes with epicenters beneath the ocean surface rattled the Northern California coastline early Monday. The quakes occurred off the shore of Humboldt County and were all located roughly ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...