A 19-year-old surfer was found safe on North Solitary island, 8 miles from Wooli Beach in Australia, after going missing during an afternoon surf session that prompted a search.

A team of chemists , microbiologists and ecologists designed a molecular probe (a molecule designed to detect e.g. proteins or DNA inside an ...

The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus is underway on its third expedition of 2025 to conduct ...

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

This 2011 astronaut photo shows the atolls of Rowley Shoals lined up in a near-perfect line off the coast of Australia. The ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

Australia's primary climate drivers are currently in a neutral phase, which means the weather around Australia is likely to be be dominated by more local effects heading into winter.

The presence of a Chinese research ship comes after Beijing's warships circumnavigated Australia less than a month ago.

Mammoth Chinese ‘spy ship’ carrying submarines off Australia’s southern coast A Chinese research ship carrying manned and unmanned submarines has sailed into Australian waters just weeks ...