When oceanographer and marine geologist Robert Ballard was a child, he didn’t read Jules Verne’s “Twenty Thousand Leagues ...

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, ...

After a series of suspected undersea cable cuttings, NATO has launched a new surveillance and deterrence mission to protect ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

Certain metallic rocks seem to be making oxygen in the dark, without light or sunshine, at the bottom of the ocean.

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

In the narrow strait between Jura and Scarba, the sea does strange things. Standing waves barrel over phantom surf breaks.

A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

A Russian spy ship seen in U.K. waters points to continuing worries over the safety of undersea cables that link the global economy.

The model photoshoot took place nearly 50 meters (163.38 ft) below the ocean's surface on the deck of the Hydro Atlantic shipwreck in Boca Raton, Florida, US.

A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal 'megaflood' refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med was a vast expanse of salt flats. The study suggests the ...