This month, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir embarked on her second journey to the ...

Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

How the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, shifting ocean conditions, and new satellite forecasting are reshaping the offshore ...

For centuries, Plato’s Atlantis was dismissed as allegory. But modern oceanography tells a more complicated story. Rock samples from the Azores Plateau — now 3,000 feet underwater — show evidence of ...

A beam of light weaker than the bulb inside a refrigerator has delivered internet speed data from a satellite more than twenty times farther away than the International Space Station. The 2 watt laser ...

None of the main research on the voyage of the Araon was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a sign of the difficult times for American science.