The world’s oceans cover more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, yet much of their depths remain unexplored. Scientists continue to encounter strange phenomena that challenge existing knowledge about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1980, 19-year-old Peter Lambert was working aboard the MV Derbyshire, one of Britain's largest ships, transporting several ...

Sixty-five per cent of the exploratory dives into the deep have taken place within 200 nautical miles of either the US, Japan ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

Unknown to many, this is Florida International University’s Aquarius Reef Base — the centerpiece of FIU's Medina Aquarius ...

For decades in the 19th and even early 20th centuries, sea serpent sightings were commonplace. Most famously, the crew of HMS Daedalus supposedly watched one for more than 20 minutes in 1848. HMS ...

The ocean is vast, deep, and often inaccessible to humans. But in recent decades, robots and other technologies have started to give researchers a view of life thousands of meters below the ocean’s ...

A study introduces a novel thermodynamic concept called the 'centotectic' and investigates the stability of liquids in extreme conditions -- critical information for determining the habitability of ...

Humanity is rapidly altering a vast ecosystem that sustains life on land and sea. But restoration is nearly impossible without understanding it better.

Families of those aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 urged ⁠the government to extend a ⁠contract with deep-sea exploration ...