The four biggest moons of Uranus may harbor salty oceans below their frozen surfaces, a new study suggests. Scientists taking a fresh look at 40-year-old data sent home by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft ...

There’s nothing quite like taking a dip in the ocean in the summertime. Sand, sunshine and the smell of salt water are practically staples when the weather gets warm. The only thing that’s unpleasant ...

So much water but none to drink. About 3.5% of the weight of seawater comes from dissolved salts. And did you know if you removed all the salt in the ocean could and spread it evenly over the Earth's ...

At first, I thought the answer to your question might take us deep into the ocean. But it turns out the source of our salty seas is actually on land. My friend professor Steve Katz and I took a walk ...

It doesn’t take more than a few minutes of playing in the ocean before you accidentally get a mouthful of incredibly salty water. It is just one of those things we take for granted. But there is a lot ...

Rain water is fresh because only pure water evaporates from the ocean. The salt (and other impurities) remain behind in the ocean. At the moment of evaporation, the salt in ocean water comes out of ...

Why is sea water salty? What is the main reason for sea water becoming salty? Let's take a detailed look. Salt is present in our kitchens, on our dining tables, and in the oceans. But why is seawater ...

A huge drop in sea levels trapped extremely salty water in the Indian Ocean, which then gushed into the Atlantic when currents changed 15,000 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

This week marks the one-year anniversary of a NASA mission designed to help answer an age-old question: How salty is the sea? The Aquarius instrument aboard the Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas ...

When scientists drilled deep into the center of a huge crater beneath the Chesapeake Bay, they discovered ancient seawater that had been locked up in sediments since the early Cretaceous Period. The ...