On any piece of rocky shore one notices bands of different life. The intertidal is a transition zone between land and sea ...

Melting polar ice narrows the light spectrum underwater, favoring blue-tuned algae and disrupting the ocean food web.

But farther out in the Pacific, life in the vast Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument faces a very different ...

Scientists map microplastics across ocean depths, revealing their deep spread, persistence, and potential climate impact.

The ocean has long been treated as the world’s forgotten frontier—out of sight, out of mind, and dangerously overused. Yet ...

Scientists aboard a research vessel near Los Angeles collected ash, air and water samples as fire blazed on the hills before them in January.

Imagine a world where sunlight barely penetrates, where darkness reigns and strange, glowing creatures drift silently through ...

FARGO — The search for extra-terrestrial life has discovered what might be ... smell of boiling cabbage and is a part of that complex ocean smell that anyone who has been to the ocean has ...

The strongest yet indication of extraterrestrial life – in the form of organically ... to possess a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water ocean-covered surface," according to NASA.

On Earth, these chemicals are only made by living organisms, especially tiny ocean life like phytoplankton. Finding these same molecules on another planet is a big deal—it could be a sign that ...

I spent years pushing strollers around the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, and would sit for hours in the Hall of Ocean Life as my babies slept, under the model of a blue whale ...

He feels he is prepared for the mental side-effects of being alone in the middle of an ocean for about 60 days. He said: "There are hallucinations, your mind starts thinking 'I don't want to do it ...