Large numbers of Velella velella, often called “by-the-wind sailors,” periodically wash ashore along coastlines around the ...

Shells of tiny ocean creatures reveal a hidden boundary in the Atlantic that could affect the Earth's global carbon cycle.

Recent observations from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite provide even more evidence to suggest that El Niño is ...

A surprising new discovery suggests that tiny microbes living inside fish may be helping shape the chemistry of the world’s ...

More than 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean. But more than 80 percent of that marine realm is unknown. A crew aboard one of the world’s most advanced research vessels is exploring ...

Tests of a new desalination technology in a reservoir near Westlake Village were a success. Next comes an ocean trial off ...

Echinoderms are those strange, sometimes slimy or spiky creatures that live on the ocean floor—think sea cucumbers, sea ...

About 201 million years ago, at the close of a geological period called the Triassic, one of the worst mass extinctions in ...

A growing ecosystem of companies is seeing the benefit in protecting the seas.

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...