A climate phenomenon known as El Niño Costero may be developing near Peru, potentially spelling an early end to La Niña.

The first ever assessment of litter in Mediterranean's deepest place located in Greece's eastern Ionian Sea has detected huge ...

Historically, research from ships has captured limited snapshots in time, offering only glimpses of the ever-changing oceans.

The discovery of pale, loose rocks on the Martian surface could suggest that Mars was once a much warmer world.

It was identified from a collection of small fossilized teeth found within the Ste. Genevieve Formation, a layer of limestone ...

It hasn't been easy forming a picture of the megalodon, a massive shark that dominated the oceans millions of years ago, because fossil finds include only teeth and vertebrae. But researchers in 28 ...

Scientists from Yale University and Singapore have developed a new model to estimate when Earth’s oceans became less acidic, ...

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...