A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.

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

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 ...

In recent years, scientists have raised alarms about the potential collapse of key ocean currents in the Atlantic, with ...

Warmer water at the seaside might sound appealing for your holiday dip, but a recent ocean heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.