Deep ocean hot spots packed with heat are making the strongest hurricanes and typhoons more likely—and more dangerous. These ...

Plankton play a central role in a climate process that scientists now say may behave more aggressively than once thought. As ...

The Ocean Genome Legacy Center and other biorepositories like it are increasingly crucial to climate change research as ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Researchers have mapped the molecular changes that unfold as sunlight causes plastics to leach dissolved organic matter, ...

Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the only known celestial body other than Earth to have liquids on its surface, has been ...

Microplastics are scourge of the world’s oceans, but finding where they accumulate could help direct conservation efforts.

Astronomers have identified a massive cloud of water vapor surrounding a distant quasar, marking the largest single reservoir ...

Long before whales and sharks, enormous marine reptiles dominated the oceans with unmatched power. Scientists have ...