China is rapidly expanding its deep-sea exploration efforts, sending fleets of research vessels far beyond its shores. While ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

Now, thanks to a series of 33 deep-sea dives conducted by a team of scientists from China, researchers have identified 7,564 species of microbes, with nearly 90% of them completely new to science.

But he does know that deep waves from Sandy crushed some of the subway cars and formed deep scour pits around them. “It was ...

Research by the U.S. Navy has developed a new passive sonar method that could revolutionize stealth underwater drones.

Seismic readings of the interior of Mars strongly suggest large quantities of water buried 6 to 12 miles underground.

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

The impact of hurricanes when they travel over land, or when they affect ships or oil-drilling platforms, are quite well ...

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.

Norwegians haul up from the deep a sea lily ... Alexander Behm sails the North Sea and bounces sound waves off its bottom, advancing a new method of depth measurement known as echo sounding.