A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides scientists with a powerful new tool for ...

Crucial for marine life and the global economy, coral reefs are the planet's first major environmental system to cross a ...

An autonomous underwater glider, Redwing, launched on a five-year mission to circle the planet, gathering data to improve ocean awareness.

Rutgers University is launching what it hopes will be the first robot to sail around the world underwater. The five-year ...

A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

According to mission co-lead Scott Glenn, the experiment marks a “historic moment for ocean science. We’re deploying a robot ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

From bugs that sprint like cheetahs to those that breathe underwater, scientists have found insects so strange, they seem ...