The diversity of population, the searching capability and the robustness are three key points to the multi-objective optimization problem, which directly affect the convergence of algorithm and the spread of solutions set. To better deal with above problems, a Scatter Search hybrid Multi-Objective Evolutionary optimization Algorithm (SSMOEA) was proposed. The SSMOEA followed the scatter search structure but designed a new selection strategy of diversity and integrated the method of co-evolution in the process of subset generation. Additionally, a novel adaptive multi-crossover operation was employed to improve the self-adaptability and robustness of the algorithm. The experimental results on twelve standard benchmark problems show that, compared with three state-of-the-art multi-objective optimizers, SPEA2, NSGA-Ⅱ and AbYSS, SSMOEA outperforms the other three algorithms as regards the coverage, uniformity and approximation. Meanwhile, its robustness is also significantly improved.