A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater near the surface could help explain some of the decrease in Antarctic sea ...

The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015 ...

A grainy photograph posted to Chinese social media this month revealed what defense watchers believe to be the most ambitious ...

Although the team’s stated goal is to capture footage of an adult colossal squid in its natural environment, according to ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

It hasn’t been a steady trend, but each year since 2016 less sea ice has formed compared to historic averages. Antarctica’s annual maximum sea ice extent in September 2023 was the lowest on record, ...

In this study, we extracted encounters between krill fishing vessels and air-breathing krill predators from more than 30,000 h of acoustic data recorded with echosounders aboard three different krill ...

When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ice. But emperor penguins stay put.

And this stout little sea cucumber, recorded 650 metres below the sea surface at Saunders East, with a gob full of what we will informally dub a deep-sea puffball. Behold, the most adorable monster of ...

Philip Hoare’s “William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love” has this poet, artist and mystic at its center but, as its title suggests, this is no conventional study.