This week in the Boston Globe Weather Mailbag, we take a closer look at what initiates warming or cooling in the equatorial ...

Can you imagine spending your entire life without ever touching the floor? Well, that’s the reality for this octopus. Pelagic ...

Ian Nixon, a veteran pilot from the Bahamas, put the plane he was flying down in the ocean without anyone suffering serious ...

Scientists edge closer to answering Mars’ biggest question: Did life ever exist on the red planet? Here's the latest from two new finds.

Freeman Short, an Aroostook County native, was 1 of 7 people aboard the Lily Jean when the fishing vessel sank off ...

A plane carrying 11 people went down in the ocean, and everyone was rescued after spending five hours in a life raft.

Scientists exploring deep underwater canyons off Western Australia have uncovered an unexpectedly rich world of marine life ...

There’s increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths ...

Scientists still have much left to learn about the creatures, even as hundreds of thousands of them wash ashore.

A man was rescued hours after falling into the Pacific Ocean when his own brother spotted him during rescue efforts ...

The brightly colored jellylike marine life, called “Velella velella,” show up every few years when strong winds blow in the ...