By one count America spends 150 times more on space exploration than ocean research. Scientists have mapped almost every ...

The discovery of D. camanchaca is groundbreaking not only because of its predatory nature but also because it represents a ...

The ocean still holds many secrets. Despite technological advancements, the underwater relief remains less known than the ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater ...

A recent deep-sea expedition into the Tonga Trench in the Pacific Ocean led to an astonishing discovery: a massive Pacific ...

A new species of tusk shell, a burrowing marine mollusk, has been discovered in deep, North Atlantic waters by scientists ...

But the size of the shelf and how quickly it descends towards the deepest parts of the ocean, known as the abyssal plain, varies from place to place. Early oceanographers thought the ocean bottom ...

The ocean depths are home to a phantasmagoria of ... and Exploration in the Abyss (Knopf, 1996). Click on any of the pictures below to see the full view. Talk about all mouth.

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission instruments have allowed for the clearest satellite-produced map of the ...

They then incubated those samples at deep ocean temperatures that are currently predicted for the end of this century. "This deep 'abyssal' ocean covers 60% of our planet and we're finding that ...

An international team of scientists have finally explored where no other human has gone before — into the ocean abyss off Australia's eastern coast. The month-long expedition was sponsored by ...