About 346 million tonnes or around 250 million elephants. Using data from BGC-Argo floats, scientists have mapped the global ...

Researchers have discovered that tiny ocean organisms are transported to deeper waters by currents called intrusions, playing ...

The world's largest icebergs break off the Antarctic ice sheet. As they drift and melt in the Southern Ocean, they create a ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

On land, we're familiar with heat waves and cold snaps. But the deep sea also experiences prolonged periods of hot and cold.

For a year and a half now, the upper layer of the world’s oceans has ... energy stored from the sea surface down through the ocean depths. When the seas are warm, more water evaporates at ...

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life on Jupiter's moon Eruopa, but it should find out if the presumed ocean ...

no tubeworm larvae have ever been found in ocean water samples. The researchers thought maybe the larvae dispersed via these sub-surface fluids, so they used SuBastian to crack open the top layer ...

New geological research suggests that a gigantic asteroid impact over 3 billion years ago, despite creating extreme ...

New geological research suggests that the gigantic asteroid impact over 3 billion years ago, despite creating extreme conditions on our planet, may have provided a conducive environment for the ...