The hatched areas on the National Hurricane Center's tropical outlook map indicate "areas where a tropical cyclone — which ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

Florida Satellite images show breadth of massive seaweed belt stretching across the Atlantic Ocean Large piles of sargassum seaweed could prove problematic for ...

The Atlantic Ocean is widening every year because a mountain range under the water is a hotspot of geologic activity, according to a recent study.

The Atlantic Ocean may “soon” be swallowed up by a vast chain of colliding tectonic plates that has been ominously dubbed the “Ring of Fire,” scientists warn.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the MTG-S1 weather satellite for EUMETSAT today (July 1), then came back down to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

Satellite images captured its brief swirl over the open Atlantic. Why It Matters Though short-lived, Andrea became the first named system of the Atlantic hurricane season when it formed on Tuesday.

NASA's Aqua satellite photographed plumes of dust being drawn from Africa's Sahara Desert and sent across the Atlantic towards the United States and the Caribbean.

It's the first time since 1950 the Atlantic basin has had two Category 2 hurricanes with sustained winds of 110-plus mph in August at the same time.

Parts of the Atlantic Ocean are experiencing a marine heat wave. For the past several months, satellite data reveals that surface water temperatures have been running above normal.

Satellite imagery released on Monday has provided visual evidence of new findings that the global ocean is hotter than ever.