"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

The atmosphere is an important transport medium that carries microplastics to even the most remote parts of the world. These ...

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 ...

New evidence of ancient rivers suggests Mars may have been a "blue planet," thanks to an ocean spanning its entire northern ...

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

Accounts from early expeditions to the Seychelles more than 250 years ago described crocodiles as common along the coasts of ...

About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

In the movie “The Day After Tomorrow,” the Atlantic Ocean’s main current system is disrupted and sets off a chain of ...

How nutrients from Europa's icy shell reach its ocean has been unclear despite several theories.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The ocean is changing color, according to a new study led by Georgia Tech researchers. Areas near the poles are turning greener, while spots closer to the equator are getting ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf is a hidden ocean – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.