The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Scientists are revolutionizing how new marine species are described through the Ocean Species Discoveries initiative. Using advanced lab techniques, researchers recently unveiled 14 new species from ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

The discovery of non-cyanobacteria diazotrophs underneath Arctic sea ice could change our understanding of the food web, as well as the ocean's carbon budget.

When videographer Steve Hathaway was filming a tourism promo on October 25 on an island off the coast of New Zealand, his ...

Researchers found that the fringes of Arctic sea ice tend to host more nitrogen-fixing bacteria and higher nitrogen-fixing ...

They say we know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the bottom of the ocean, which is what made it so ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, a world of mystery unfolds. Scientists have recently unearthed dozens of enigmatic black ...

A recent marine expedition found fascinating new species in the deep Pacific, highlighting how little is still known about life beneath the ocean.

There is a reason we call ourselves the Blue Planet.

The hoodwinker sunfish, or Mola tecta, can weigh as much as 4,400 pounds and can grow up to nine feet long "It was so enormous and so weird and gorgeous. It's like suddenly you're on another planet," ...

As the planet warms, strange new animals are emerging in unexpected places. These creatures might look like they have come ...