One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...

A carnivorous "death-ball" sponge has been declared one of the oddest finds made during a deep-sea expedition near Antarctica ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

Astronomers studying black holes have identified regions where space and time behave in unimaginable ways. Known as the ...

In 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter captured a strange image over Mars’ Cydonia region a rock formation that looked uncannily ...

Leonid Pshenichov, a 70-year-old biologist, has been arrested by the Kremlin for “undermining Russia’s industrial trawling ...

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago. Scientists say Earth's warming ...

Scientists have captured rare footage of remoras, also known as sucker fish, hitching rides on humpback whales off the coast ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

Scientists are alarmed as southern elephant seals face sharp population declines, possibly due to disease and changing oceans ...

Living in one of the most remote regions of the planet is the Chondrocladia sp. nov, which is covered in tiny hooks to trap ...

A team of researchers, including those from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has discovered the oldest directly ...