The largest moon in our solar system could be home to a subterranean 'club sandwich' of ice and oceans.
The two largest planets in our solar system may be home to diamond rain and liquid diamond oceans.
Overfishing and other destructive factors may be pushing the world's oceans towards disaster.
The Keck II telescope and OSIRIS spectrometer have revealed new details of what lies in Europa's oceans.
The vast oceans of liquid water believed to exist beneath the ice on Europa may be deeper than thought.
As the hunt for habitable planets intensifies astronomers are turning their attention to alien oceans.
Scientists believe that the mantle of Mars contains enough water to cover the planet's entire surface.
A controversial new theory suggests that life might have actually developed in freshwater ponds.
Debris from the satellite is believed to have fallen over Canada and three of the world's largest oceans.
Homo erectus may have travelled across the world's oceans as early as 130,000 years ago.
Poisonous algae and jellyfish are being found in British waters due to warmer ocean temperatures
Scientists warn that human activities may have pushed our oceans in to a new "extinction phase".
An increase in ocean acidity is making clownfish deaf and vulnerable to predators.
The Turanor PlanetSolar is circumnavigating the world's oceans to prove that renewable energy can work.
A massive new census of life in the oceans has been completed following 10 years of research.
Scientists are hopeful that a space telescope to be launched in 2014 will be able to see oceans on other planets.
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.