Much of Earth's heat uptake is passed to the ocean, making ocean heat content key for understanding long-term climate ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

As rising temperatures melt Antarctica's ice sheet and cause more precipitation, the Southern Ocean's upper layer is growing less salty -- and thus, less dense. This creates a lid that limits the ...

New research reveals that early Earth concealed a deep ocean of magma, which may explain today's anomalies in the planet's ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In the darkness of the South Atlantic Ocean, researchers captured for the first time footage of a live colossal squid ...

Imagine an underwater world where tiny creatures hold the fate of the planet’s carbon cycles in their delicate fins. Beneath ...

By mixing up these ocean layers—which are normally very stable in the Antarctic summer—the ocean's temperature, its salinity and the amount of nutrients are all changed. This ultimately ...

Pink and bulbous "sea pigs", hand-sized sea spiders and delicate sea butterflies are among the bizarre animals hauled up from the ocean floor by a team of Australian researchers aboard the ...

Among the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks, this high-seas patch of ocean covers an area the size of Switzerland. More than 200 miles from land ...