For ages, Earth has been known as a blue planet, a vision largely shaped by the vast oceans that cover three-quarters of its ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

Together, surface and deepwater currents form the “global conveyor belt,” which circulates seawater over a 1,000-year journey ...

Some places on planet Earth are inaccessible due to their difficult terrain. Experts studying planet life are not able to ...

The hull descended in a straight line and is largely still intact—the scan shows it neatly wedged into the ocean floor. The stern, on the other hand, is shattered, and researchers have never ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...

This isn’t the first time scientists have found thriving ecosystems in seemingly inhospitable parts of the ocean. For decades, marine biologists have studied hydrothermal vents—essentially ...

According to an article published by the Farmingdale Observer, the team has released the most detailed map to date of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT satellite (Surface Water and Ocean ...

The exceptionally thick, 205-mile-deep mantle transition zone beneath the Antilles ranks among the thickest ever observed around the world.

Prior research has shown that millions of tons of plastics are piling up in the environment, including on the ocean floor. Because of this, scientists have been looking for better, biodegradable ...

If the street this house sits on is named after a seabird — as is pretty much every other street in the neighborhood — then the Atlantic Ocean can ... This floor has electric baseboard ...