Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

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

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.

Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Swimming in the Arctic Ocean had been on my bucket list for years, and I finally got the chance to make it happen.

A new study focusing on Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, shows that the physics of alien oceans could prevent evidence of deep-sea life from reaching places where we can detect it.

Alien lifeforms living in oceans on other planets could remain hidden from spacecraft, suggests new research. Searching for ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of carbon into the ocean.