We’re all taught that water is clear, so why does the ocean look so strikingly blue when we’re staring out at it? It turns ...

An international research team led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has, for the first time, succeeded in visualizing and ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

A massive and surprising change is unfolding around Antarctica. Scientists have discovered that the Southern Ocean is getting ...

Marine heatwaves are becoming more intense and longer-lasting as humanity continues to release planet-warming gases into our ...

Waterfalls on land dazzle with their dramatic beauty, the world’s largest waterfall is hidden beneath the ocean. The Denmark Strait cataract, located between Iceland and Greenland, is a natural ...

University of Delaware associate professor Andrew Wozniak co-led a research cruise aboard UD’s Research Vessel Hugh R. Sharp to study the sea surface microlayer in the North Atlantic Ocean. Pictured ...

But evaporation, freezing, and rocks can’t quite account for all the water that must have covered Mars in the distant past. Calculations suggest the “missing” water is enough to cover the planet in an ...

Clouds are made mostly of water, but not entirely. Each water droplet or ice crystal that makes up a cloud forms around a tiny airborne particle no more than one micrometer in size. (That’s ...

Ocean surface heat is at record-breaking levels.Temperatures began climbing in mid-March and skyrocketed over the course of several weeks, leaving scientists scrambling to figure out exactly why.