The oceans are mostly composed of warm salty water near the surface over cold, less salty water in the ocean depths. These ...

Under-sea mountains are key locations for predators -- with 41 times more sharks than the open ocean, new research shows.

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

Grist dives into Florida’s ironic water scarcity problem, borne from climate change, a development boom, and the ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

More than 24 hours after a U.S. Navy EA-18G Growler nose-dived into the San Diego Bay, the fighter jet was still submerged in the water Thursday and Harbor Police patrols were seen circling the ...

Researchers at Stanford University developed a new method to measure water levels in the state’s aquifers using readily available seismic data.

A team of physicists at Fudan University, working with colleagues from Henan University, both in China, and from Nanyang ...

Scientists spotted the anglerfish in shallow waters, which is highly unusual and could indicate something deeper ...

Regulations, whale safety concerns and fickle prey are putting more pressure on the industry. “We’re working very hard to ...

Researchers have discovered various topological structures in water waves (skyrmions, merons, Möbius and vortices with ...