Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

This Google Maps image captured in 2021 revealed a mysterious, triangular dark patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ...

Some cyanobacteria have pigments that specialise in harvesting green light to power their photosynthesis, which may be an evolutionary adaptation to a time when the oceans were iron-rich and green-tin ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Earth's oceans are mysterious, largely unexplored places, but the enormous oceans of Neptune and Uranus have them beat.

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

Earth’s oceans are said to be the greatest source of untapped renewable energy, offering a nearly continuous and highly predictable source of clean energy. This kind of energy will complement the now ...

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

The falling cost of clean energy offers hope. Scientists sound the alarm after staggering change in world's oceans creates surprising consequence: 'The only answer' first appeared on The Cool Down.

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, Callisto, appears geologically unremarkable. In the 1990s, however, NASA's ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger remains low, but experts are estimating the damage that could be done.