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

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.

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to a shocking extent, a new study has discovered.

Patches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying a marine habitat.

Check out some of the best photos from 2024's Ocean Photographer of the Year competition.

Supercomputers helped unlock a satellite's ability to monitor the mountains of floating plastic.

Europa's outer ice shell is not where it used to be, but instead may be free floating across the moon.

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.

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

Rapidly warming oceans are cutting into the underside of the Earth’s widest glacier, startling new data and images show, leaving the ice more prone to fracturing and ultimately heightening the ...

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.