(Alfred Wegener Institute/Hanna Knahl, Patrick Scholz) New simulations show that the world's strongest ocean current didn't start flowing overnight – several major factors needed to align before it ...

A colossal ocean current encircling Antarctica—stronger than all the world’s rivers combined—played a far more complex role in shaping Earth’s climate than scientists once thought. New research shows ...

Scientists have found a new way to detect subtle chemical signatures in seawater, revealing previously invisible details ...

Scientists launch a global mission to explore 10,000 deep ocean locations and uncover unseen marine life and ecosystems ...

It transports far more than 100 times as much water as all of the Earth's rivers combined: The Antarctic Circumpolar Current ...

Massive ocean discovered beneath the Earth's crust containing more water than on the surface ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

Despite extensive mapping of the Moon, Earth's oceans remain largely unexplored. NASA has introduced a groundbreaking method ...

Sediment containing rare earth was retrieved from ocean depths of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) on a Japanese test mission, the government said Monday, as it seeks to curb dependence on China for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient ocean layers locked away carbon, cooling Earth’s lukewarm interglacials, new isotopic study shows. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) ...

HONOLULU (AP) - The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology is inviting the public to learn about volcanoes, tsunami and other phenomena at its Open House on the University of Hawaii at Manoa ...