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Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests. New evidence of ...

For most of modern history, the open ocean has been treated as a place apart. Beyond the 200-nautical-mile limits of national ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

Researchers have discovered that chemical reactions in underwater hydrothermal vents could have produced the necessary ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is located in the northwest corner of the island. It supports missile warning, missile defence and space surveillance missions and satellite ...

Point Nemo sits quietly in the southern Pacific, marked on maps but rarely thought about. It is not a destination in any ...

Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean billions of years ago ...

Australia has closed dozens of beaches and urged people to stay out of the ocean after a fourth shark attack was reported ...

As Earth warms due to climate change, oceans are heating up, becoming more acidic, and losing oxygen. These changes threaten ...

Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters ...