Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...

New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...

Ocean currents can carry phytoplankton hundreds ... helped researchers understand how carbon is cycled from the surface to the deep sea. MBARI researchers and collaborators had previously observed ...

Researchers claim we know about less than 1% of our deep seas here on Earth, raising concerns over possible deep sea mining.

Researchers collected more than 43,000 records of dives and assessed the photos and videos to determine how much of the bottom has been seen by humans.

An underwater volcano off the Oregon coast, Axial Seamount, is showing signs of imminent eruption, but scientists say it ...

Perched on a hot spot along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, the volcano is steadily inflating with magma, raising  the frequency of ...

Located 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) below today’s seabed, the wavy sediments were formed during the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...

Already at this time, there are unusual things happening in the Atlantic Ocean ... or the process where deep, cold, nutrient-rich water rises to the surface to replace water pushed away by ...