Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

Explore the ocean's extreme depths, where vent worms and extremophile bacteria thrive in scorching heat and crushing pressure ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...

From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of ...

Researchers classify the coelacanth under the group Sarcopterygii, which include the earliest ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.

In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

At the heart of nearly every large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants don’t just sit quietly. Every so often, they enter a period of intense activity called the active galactic ...