Buoys, ships, and some autonomous rovers have recently added some detail, but it’s nothing like what we get from satellites ...

When most of us look out at the ocean, we see a mostly flat blue surface stretching to the horizon. It’s easy to imagine the sea beneath as calm and largely static – a massive, still abyss far removed ...

"The waves are massive and I have no life jacket on. … I just kept thinking 'just keep swimming, just keep swimming,'" Austin ...

How moving tectonic plates and rising heat from deep within Earth created one of the ocean’s largest canyons. On land, giant canyons like the Grand Canyon are usually the slow handiwork of rivers that ...

U.S. Coast Guard officials say they have launched a formal investigation into the sinking of a commercial fishing vessel off Gloucester, Massachusetts, that resulted in seven deaths.

The unexpected sighting of a waved albatross, which was thousands of miles from its typical range, earned it a label ...

Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

For example, the World War II tanker E.M. Clark sank on a relatively flat, sandy seabed in 1942 when it was torpedoed by a German submarine. To this day, the intact metal wreck looms over the North ...

A yacht struck a submerged rock a few hundred yards offshore from Heisler Park Sunday. The boat sank overnight and was retrieved and towed back to Newport Harbor Monday.

This jaw-dropping shark is pink, nightmarishly ugly and can slingshot its jaw out of its face when it’s hungry ...