Jupiter’s moon Europa has long been a favorite in the search for life beyond Earth, and fresh data from NASA’s Juno ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

An Argo ocean float was lost in the Antarctic for months under the Denman and Shackleton ice shelves, and it returned with ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

Despite setbacks, scientists around the world produced amazing discoveries every day, some of which made a big splash while ...

You are taught early in science that oxygen on Earth comes from sunlight. Plants, algae, and cyanobacteria use light to split water and release oxygen, shaping the atmosphere and making complex life ...

For more than a decade, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft traced Saturn’s rings and moons, returning some of the most detailed ...

A team of researchers has used computer models to simulate tropical cyclones at high resolutions and investigate their effect on the carbon exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere. Their results ...

In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to investigate the inner workings of the ocean’s carbon cycle. A series of storms ...

New research reveals how the speed of ocean currents and the shape of the seabed influence the amount of heat flowing underneath Antarctic ice shelves, contributing to melting. Scientists at the ...

Scientists fear warming is driving a collapse in the ocean currents that shape climate far and wide. The ice-choked waters off Greenland might hold the key. Scientists fear warming is driving a ...

Far below the waves, between about 1.2 and 3.1 miles (two to five kilometers) down, sunlight never reaches and the water sits just above freezing. In that darkness, animals and microbes should ...