Half the planet lies outside any country’s border. In those waters, rules have long been thinner than the myths: freedom to ...

The image looks almost abstract at first, a set of pale bands sweeping across the Pacific that could be mistaken for clouds or camera noise. In reality, it is the signature of a wall of water ...

Physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative, KM3NeT, built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for ...

When we think of snow, we usually think of winter. But did you know that it is always snowing in the ocean? Read more about marine snow.

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Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea ...

Scientists have uncovered why big predators like sharks spend so much time in the ocean’s twilight zone. The answer lies with ...

Beneath cold, high-pressure oceans, water and gas molecules clump together into crystalline solids called gas hydrates.

Researchers retrieved reef monitoring devices that had been placed in deep coral reefs in Guam. The devices were placed up to 330 feet below the surface.