Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

The new research, published recently in Nature, used numerical simulations to reconstruct the underwater light environment of ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

For centuries, sailors have reported the eerie glow of "milky seas" — vast areas of ocean that shine at night like a soft ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Global climate models predict that the ocean around Antarctica should be warming, but in reality, those waters have cooled ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...