In the summer of 2015, a pair of counter-rotating ocean whirlpools in the southern Gulf of Mexico did something scientists had not previously captured in high-resolution observational data: one of ...

Slow waves meander westward out in the deep ocean south of Australia. Sometimes they carry with them carry large eddies, whirlpools over 100 miles across. But every so often, these whirlpools combine ...

Using sensor data from several US and European satellites, researchers from the University of Delaware, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Ocean University of China have developed a method to ...

An international team of scientists says they've developed a method of using satellites to peer beneath of ocean's surface to study underwater currents. Using sensor data from several U.S. and ...

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One of space's most powerful phenomena might have a distant cousin here on Earth. Satellite images have recently revealed mysterious "black hole" whirlpools located in the South Atlantic Ocean. The ...

Scientists have spotted a bizarre phenomenon reeling through the southern seas: linked swirls of water that resemble giant whirlpools spinning in opposite directions. Rotating masses of water called ...

Giant “whirlpools” in the ocean, up to 500 kilometres across, are driving the world’s climate on a scale previously unimagined. We just don’t know exactly how yet. The bodies of swirling water, called ...

Move over, Superman, with your X-ray vision. Marine scientists have figured out a way to see through the ocean’s surface and detect what’s below, with the help of satellites. Using sensor data from ...

Move over, Superman, with your X-ray vision. Marine scientists have now figured out a way to "see through" the ocean's surface and detect what's below, with the help of satellites in space. Using ...