As the International Space Station (ISS) approaches the end of its operational life, NASA is preparing for one of the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have found a thriving ecosystem of animal life in an unlikely place: beneath hydrothermal vents under the seafloor of ...

Somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a stray bottle cap drifts through sunlit water, invisible to anyone above the ...

Trump has moved to reopen sections of federally protected marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing.

President Trump is signing a proclamation to restore commercial fishing within three marine monuments in the Pacific Ocean.

Along with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean. However, a new study led by oceanographers at the University of Hawaii'i ...

Hawaiian gold coral in the deep ocean. (Photo credit: HURL) Layers of coral skeleton laid down over the past 1,000 years can be seen in this polished section of a deep sea coral. (Photo by M. McCarthy ...

The Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has served as a key index linking basin-scale climate variability to marine ecosystem changes in the North Pacific. However, recent apparent breakdowns of ...

Marine heatwaves and ocean acidification extreme events are periods during which temperature and acidification reach statistically extreme levels (90th percentile), relative to normal variability, ...

Researchers have discovered a highly specialized community of sea creatures living 6 miles beneath the ocean surface—deeper than any found before. Reading time 2 minutes Researchers recently dove more ...

Along with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean. However, a new study led by oceanographers at the University of Hawai‘i ...