Scientists have discovered massive undersea rivers flowing along the bottom of the world's oceans.
The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft is helping to determine if Venus ever had oceans.
Scientists have expressed concern over the way in which climate change is affecting how the world's oceans function.
Further evidence has been found to support the idea that vast oceans once existed on the surface of Mars.
Jupiter's moon Europa may seem like a barren ball of ice but underneath that shell could be oceans teeming with life.
Between 66 and 172 million years ago enormous plankton-eating fish prowled the depths of the world's oceans.
New research has suggested that there could be liquid diamond oceans with solid diamond icebergs floating in Uranus or Neptune.
Earth's oceans may not have been formed as the result of vapors emitted during early volcanism but may have instead been...
A new expedition to Saturn's moon Titan by as early as 2022 could see the first ever nautical exploration of an extrater...
Palaeontologists have managed to extract ink from a fossilised squid and used it to draw with, the fossil is believed to...
A barrage of comets some 3.85 billion years ago could have accounted for the arrival of the Earth's oceans a new study h...
Jellyfish and other similar marine creatures could be helping to curb the effects of global warming by stirring up the o...
A new study based on a map of the planet's southern hemisphere taken by the Venus Express spacecraft has suggested that ...
The world's oceans may be overtaken by giant jellyfish due to overfishing it has been claimed. Nomura jellyfish can grow...
The risk of an asteroid hitting the oceans and producing a massive tidal wave have been reduced substantially following ...
New technologies are opening up the possibility of mining valuable minerals from the deep sea floor, a meeting of scient...
Described as the Tyrannosaurus of the sea, remains of the world's most fearsome ocean predator nicknamed "Predator X" ha...