The world's largest ocean basin is also the oldest. A basin is "a depression, or dip, in the Earth's surface," according to National Geographic. The Pacific Ocean is the largest, deepest and oldest ...

For years, planetary scientists treated Titan as an ocean world in disguise, a frozen shell hiding a vast global sea of liquid water. Now a fresh look at old spacecraft data is overturning that ...

There are five oceans recognized in the world, with the Southern Ocean being the most recent. While COVID had our attention, agencies around the world were setting boundaries and officially ...

The Investigating Ocean Worlds (InvOW) project will measure organic compounds across three domains: the subseafloor (A), the ocean (B), and the cryosphere (C), with a goal of helping NASA apply what ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, Ceres appeared dry and rocky, its surface marked by craters and dents. For ...

The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week. A staggering 77% ...

Each year on World Ocean Day, observed globally on June 8, we are reminded of the urgent environmental challenges confronting our oceans – from rising sea levels projected to impact over 200 million ...