Just south of Greenland, in the northern Atlantic Ocean, a strange area of water has been confounding scientists for years.

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

The study confirms that the North Atlantic cold patch is due to a weakening ocean current system, not aerosols or wind ...

A 2015 satellite photo captured a series of stunning "von Kármán vortices" swirling off Madeira and the Canary Islands. The giant swirls are collectively one of the best examples of this ...

The anomaly, located just south of Greenland, is — perhaps counterintuitively — called the North Atlantic Warming Hole, and ...

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists are doing new research on the Hydrothermal Field, an undersea world that may hold the ...

The Atlantic Ocean, near the Bahamas, as seen from the International Space Station in July 2024. (Image credit: NASA / JSC) For a few months this summer, a large strip of Atlantic Ocean along the ...

At this year's Living Planet Symposium, attendees heard how ESA's Next Generation Gravity Mission could provide the first ...

Atlantic Ocean. Size: Second largest ocean, spanning over 41 million square miles. ... The Earth’s oceans began forming over 4 billion years ago, shortly after the planet's formation.

A European Space Agency-led effort is helping marine scientists identify and characterize the most biologically vulnerable ...