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

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations. These seals are acting as "smart sensors," revealing critical data about an ...

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

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

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 ...

Space agencies and billionaires are still mostly focused on Mars. However, if life exists beyond the Earth but within the ...

Scientists searching for life beyond Earth often look to ocean worlds like Enceladus, one of Saturn’s icy moons. Enceladus ...

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

Searching for life in alien oceans may be more difficult than scientists previously thought, even when we can sample these ...

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