NASA astronaut Gus Grissom completed the second successful human spaceflight mission for the United States of America. His suborbital flight in the Liberty Bell 7 capsule lasted 15 minutes and 30 seconds and reached an altitude of 103 nautical miles.

Saharan dust may be chipping away at the current tropical system, but experts say it usually winds down before August.

The window is narrowing for a new tropical system to emerge from an area of stormy weather located in the central Atlantic and moving toward the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane

While the National Hurricane Center's map is lit up with a tropical disturbance, Saturday's forecast is much more about the heat index.

In its third beach release of the season, the New England Aquarium returned six sea turtles to the Atlantic Ocean following months of rehabilitation for hypothermia-related medical conditions.

The body of an unidentified person has been found floating near the Isles of Shoals off of the coast of New Hampshire in the Atlantic Ocean, police said.

From more frequent wildfires to rising sea levels, climate change is disrupting ecosystems and upending once-stable weather patterns. One particularly alarming consequence of rising global temperatures is the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC),

A Nantucket man is defending his actions after his neighbor filed a lawsuit claiming he cut down several of her family’s decades-old trees to enhance his ocean view. Jonathan Jacoby is accused of chopping down 16 of his neighbor’s trees and three months later listing his home—highlighting “sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean.”

A tropical wave is interacting with a broad low pressure area to produce the showers and thunderstorms in the open Atlantic Ocean.

How is ventilation at various depth layers of the Atlantic connected and what role do changes in ocean circulation play? Researchers from Bremen, Kiel and Edinburgh have pursued this question and their findings have now been published in Nature Communications.

The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans meet off the southernmost tip of South America, and many factors contribute to how fast they merge together.