An Air Niugini passenger plane was sinking in the ocean on Sept. 28 after the plane landed before reaching the air strip at Chuuk Airport in Micronesia. The U.S. Federal ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Engineers are deploying a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in ...

On April 11, 2018, there were news stories about a young sperm whale that had washed up on ...

Radioactive cesium from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been flowing into the ocean since an earthquake ...

There's a potential solution for ocean pollution.

For the first time, scientists have captured the elusive ruby seadragon in the wild.

Is there an ocean under Pluto's surface? A new study suggests that there may indeed be one beneath ...

During a recent exploration of the waters near the Channel Islands, the crew of the E/V Nautilus encountered ...

NOAA researchers with the Okeanos Explorer expedition recently captured a video of a glowing shrimp with some crazy ...

Here are 10 of the strangest deep sea creatures recently spotted by ocean explorers.

Southern California Officials just can't seem to keep Wally the dead whale from haunting ocean shores. The whale's dead carcass ...

During a dive near the California coastline, the E/V Nautilus team captured footage of a siphonophore in action.

The oceans are home to many fascinating and dazzling creatures, and recently NOAA's Okeanos Explorer team captured a ...

A sea cucumber recently caught on camera by the NOAA crew during the Okeanos Explorer mission dazzles and ...

Update: Multiple media reports seemed to suggest this jellyfish is a new species. We asked the NOAA and ...

Spotting a killer whale in the Monterey Bay south of San Jose may not be that rare of ...

Malaviya pushed against the cultural current.

The NOAA's Okeanos Explorer mission has encountered quite a few life forms during the 2016 Hohonu Moana expedition.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has revealed that a remotely operated vehicle spotted a ghost-like octopod during ...

Antarctica and Greenland may be two of the most remote places on Earth but what happens in both ...

As giant icebergs bob across the open seas they leave behind a trail of nutrient-rich meltwater, sparking new ...

Scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium report that a nursery for sand tiger sharks—an area where juvenile ...

This meat-eating sponge is called the harp sponge, a name that becomes self-explanatory after you see its image ...

A scary new predator has been discovered on the ocean floors. The scientific name of this shark is Etmopterus ...

Not much is known about the whiplash squid in this video. It lives so deep in the ocean ...

For most marine biologists, myself included, it wasn’t until 2005 that it dawned on us that a third ...

A microscopic marine alga is thriving in the North Atlantic to an extent that defies scientific predictions, suggesting ...