Rising ocean temperatures also contribute to the loss of coral reefs, which help support fisheries, and protect coastlines ...

The analysis shows that, in 2025, around 16% of the global ocean area reached a record-high OHC, and about 33% ranked among ...

Saturn's innermost moon, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, may be a "stealth" ocean world, according to new research. Mimas, which is the smallest and closest to Saturn of the ringed ...

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the ...

For years, planetary scientists treated Titan as an ocean world in disguise, a frozen shell hiding a vast global sea of liquid water. Now a fresh look at old spacecraft data is overturning that ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

This zone contains a vast amount of marine life, potentially over 90% of all ocean life, and supports important commercial and recreational fisheries. Creatures in the twilight zone help mitigate ...

There are five oceans recognized in the world, with the Southern Ocean being the most recent. While COVID had our attention, agencies around the world were setting boundaries and officially ...

New evidence from an old NASA mission supports the theory that Jupiter's moon Callisto is in fact an ocean world. Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely has a ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, Ceres appeared dry and rocky, its surface marked by craters and dents. For ...