An artistic visualization of ocean currents from NASA has people mesmerized learning about our planet's underwater highways.

The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...

A researcher has defied the long-standing convention by applying equations from magnetohydrodynamics to our oceans' salt water (which conducts electricity) and found that the long-term changes in the ...

San Antonio — Oct. 23, 2007 — Space physicists have long assumed that the magnetosphere at Jupiter circulates that planet’s magnetic field in the same way as Earth. At Earth, this circulation drives ...

Scientists have discovered that the weakening of a major Atlantic current could lead to extreme rainfall and severe storms in ...

In the last month, there’s been much attention to a cool patch in the North Atlantic Ocean, where record cold temperatures over the past eight months present a stark contrast to a globe that is ...

Using geochemical analyses of marine sediments, researchers have been able to quantitatively reconstruct the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation over the past 12,000 years. The international ...

What happens when the ocean doesn’t circulate as it should? Though you might not realize it, the natural circulation of the ocean, particularly the Atlantic Ocean, is extremely important in regulating ...

Fig. 1: A map of Earth showing the global cloud cover on July 11, 2005, based largely on observations by the MODIS sensor on the NASA Terra satellite. The interaction between atmospheric circulation ...

Scientists from the Universities of Sydney and Sorbonne University have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover a connection between the orbits of Earth and Mars, past global warming ...

The flow of thick ice over a Snowball Earth ocean (“sea glaciers”, characterized by dynamics very different from that of thinner sea ice 14), has received significant attention over the past few years ...