Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown—an uncharted territory, hidden from view. That all changed thanks to ...

The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet ... This toxic layer looks so dark it resembles the hole's floor but is actually a boundary which separates oxygenated water from oxygen ...

The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic ... Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is ...

Building the definitive map of Earth's ocean floor means collating colossal volumes ... High-resolution mapping was recently conducted in an Atlantic Ocean canyon to understand why sediment ...

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Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered ... a photo gallery and interactive map of the division's finds.

Just as I did as a toddler, crossing the vast Atlantic Ocean from Angola to the United States ... shaunl; Getty Images I ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology. Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered two well-preserved onion glass bottles from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean off the ...

A significant shift in the system of ocean currents that helps keep parts of Europe warm could send temperatures in the UK lower, scientists have found. They say the Atlantic Ocean circulation ...