Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...

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With a new kind of microscope, researchers got a different view of how marine snow falls to the seafloor. Marine snow sinking in an infinite water column created by an artificial “gravity machine.” ...

The ocean has absorbed a significant portion carbon dioxide emissions from human activities, decreasing the pH of the water and leading to a suite of chemical changes collectively known as ocean ...

Scientists around the world rely on ocean monitoring tools to measure the effects of climate change. Researchers advanced the technology available to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean. Scientists ...