Considering the deepest point of Earth's ocean (35,876 feet) equates to roughly 6.8 miles, that makes the oceans of Uranus and Neptune approximately 715 times deeper than our own.

When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in 1986, however, it discovered something unusual.“The magnetic field was hugely tilted and offset from the center of the planet,” Dr ...

Why Seagrass Could Be the Ocean’s Secret Weapon Against Climate Change A vast, mostly invisible ecosystem crucial to our life on Earth is in trouble, but efforts to save the ‘prairies of the ...

From blue-ringed octopuses to stonefish, here are some of the most venomous, deadly species in our planet's oceans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Scientists are running out of extreme adjectives to describe the state of the world’s oceans. Global sea surface temperatures are spiking off the charts. The North Atlantic Ocean, in particular ...

Bottom-feeding sea cucumbers may seem unimportant, but without these weirdos our oceans might die A new study explores the fascinating biology of one of the ocean's most enigmatic organisms ...

Warming oceans affect the food sources of many of the seagoing animals in the Galapagos. Marine iguanas — one of many species that are endemic, or unique, to the Galapagos — have a harder time ...