The Arctic Ocean is Earth's northernmost body of water. It encircles the Arctic, and flows beneath it. Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by ice throughout the year—although that is starting to ...

If we have too much water, it creates high-pressure ice underneath the ocean, which separates it from the planet’s rocky interior,” said Caroline Dorn, a geophysicist at ETH Zurich ...

Water has been detected on Mars that could harbour life 12 miles beneath the surface, according to new research.

More than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, according to the U.S. Geological survey and of that water, more than 96% of it is contained in one of earth's five oceans. From the Arctic ...

The world's oceans cover more than 70% of Earth's surface. They're filled with currents, some much stronger than the fastest flowing ... We looked at 30 years of water velocity data—measurements of ...

This would have meant the newly formed moon was covered entirely in magma: a global magma ocean, so hot and deep that it took at least tens of millions of years to cool and solidify into rock.

Arctic Ocean was covered by kilometre-thick ice shelf and filled entirely with freshwater, ‘surprising’ new evidence reveals. Extensive glaciation and lower sea levels cut off Arctic from ...

After all, an alien examining it through a telescope would note that two-thirds of its surface is covered not by earth at all, but by oceans of water. Because humans are land-lubbing animals, most ...

Enough water to cover the surface of Mars in an ocean between one and two kilometers (0.62 and 1.24 miles) deep has been discovered within the crust of the Red Planet by NASA's InSight mission ...

Researchers now have a much better understanding of how climate change can impact and cause sea water temperatures on one side of the Indian Ocean to be so much warmer or cooler than the ...