Satellites captured record-breaking 66-foot waves from a single storm that traveled around Earth, revealing new insights into ...

Satellites recorded the largest ocean swells ever seen from space, highlighting how massive waves can act as storm ...

Heat waves don’t just strike on land — they can also occur in the ocean. And roughly a third of marine heat waves aren’t detectable at the ocean’s surface, a new study reports. The findings, published ...

Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese, but they differ from other waves that are generated by the wind or solar system. Tsunami waves move the entire depth of the ocean, down to the floor, which is ...

With each crashing neon blue wave, the crowd cheered. Determined beachgoers flocked to north Orange County in the late-night hours this week to catch the latest light show put on by bioluminescent ...

When an intense heat wave strikes a patch of ocean, overheated marine animals may have to swim thousands of kilometers to find cooler waters, researchers report August 5 in Nature. Such displacement, ...

Beachgoers caught a glimpse of bioluminescence in Southern California waters this month. The blue glow comes from bioluminescent phytoplankton that are agitated in the water by waves. Screengrab from ...

An ocean heat wave in waters around Florida has scientists worried about cascading disasters, from fueling hurricanes and coral bleaching to exacerbating record heat on land. Ocean temperatures have ...