Using a specially developed laser measurement system aboard the research platform FLIP (Floating Instrument Platform) in the ...

A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, ...

A floating city, considered the world's first, is starting to take shape in the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean. Satellite imagery provided exclusively to Newsweek by Maxar Technologies shows ...

A British-flagged luxury superyacht that sank off Sicily in 2024, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch and six others, has been recovered from the sea.

On September 29, 2022, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby of Europa, coming to within 220 miles (355 kilometers) of the Jovian moon’s frozen surface.

The stunning images were among those short-listed at the 2024 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards. The winners of the competition, which is run by Oceanographic Magazine and sponsored by the ...

Supercomputers helped unlock a satellite's ability to monitor the mountains of floating plastic. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every ...

Rising from the ocean like a scene from a movie, this 600-foot war machine is real—and it’s terrifying. Built for strength, ...

The Latest. There’s less plastic pollution flowing into the ocean from land than scientists previously thought, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.. The ...

The vessel collected data and images in an environment in which warm ocean water, in some places more than 2 degrees Celsius above the local freezing point, is weakening the glacier.

More than 3 tons of cocaine floating in the ocean have been seized by authorities in New Zealand in one of the country’s single biggest drugs busts. Some 81 bales of cocaine weighing 3.2 metric ...

Sea ice in the Antarctic Ocean had been growing for decades, but now, a sudden trend downward could spell serious trouble.