A new study finds that a trait helping a marine bacterium survive and flourish today may ultimately become its Achilles Heel as ocean conditions continue to shift.

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

It's the first time the ocean has been factored into the cost of carbon. Scientists have factored damage to the ocean into the social cost of carbon for the first time -- finding it nearly doubles the ...

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

Life in the ocean runs on light. It fuels photosynthesis, shapes food webs and determines where many marine species can live.

The global cost of greenhouse gas emissions are nearly double what scientists previously thought, according to a study published Thursday by researchers at the University of California San Diego’s ...

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

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.Related video above: Check out this amazing video of a kayaker paddling ...

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

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

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