A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening over the past two decades, according to new research.

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

Over 600 people have traveled to space, but only 22 brave souls have ventured to the enigmatic depths of the ocean floor.

Over the past two decades, more than one-fifth of the world's oceans, an area exceeding 75 million square kilometers, have ...

In the deepest parts of the ocean, below 4,000 metres, the combination of high pressure and low temperature creates conditions that dissolve calcium carbonate, the material marine animals use to make ...

Only about 20% of the ocean’s depths has been mapped by humans. Here’s what we do — and don’t — know about the deep seas and why studying them is so precarious.