The first icefish was discovered in 1927, swimming in the frigid waters of the southernmost extreme of the Earth, the ...

Fossilised plankton from the Arabian Sea reveals oxygen levels in oceans may recover after global warming, say University of Southampton scientists.

Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...

We’re getting an exclusive look inside the National Museum of Natural History’s Ocean Library in Suitland, Maryland.

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic.

Oceana scientist Caitlynn Birch explains how environmental DNA, or eDNA, helps us understand and protect the oceans ...

For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

“The presence of liquid water [on Mars] is a broad topic that includes rains, rivers, lakes, as well as oceans,” says Ezat ...

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

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...