The ocean basins are so vast and deep that they hold about 97 percent of the Earth's water. Sea water that's trapped in ...

As the search intensifies for the submersible that lost contact with its mother ship on Sunday as it descended to the wreck of the Titanic, many are wondering how deep the ocean is and what exactly ...

Scientists discovered fragile flatworm egg cocoons over 20,000 feet deep in the Pacific, the deepest record of flatworm ...

A MYSTERIOUS abyss in the ocean known as the “shadow zone” traps ancient water dating back to 400AD. We now know why it’s there. This ancient water, which is between 1000 and 2000 years old, dates ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

The twilight zone is a section of water extending from the euphotic zone down to 1000m. A new study demonstrates that this region acts like a gate and that little makes it to the seafloor. …carbon ...

Discoveries and news in 2005 from the global Census of Marine Life include: Major expansions of projects tracking animals in the Pacific, dubbed "fish with chips"; Tiny carnivorous sponges among new ...

A push to extract minerals from the depths of the Pacific Ocean is gaining momentum. Here is how it works and why it has become a global flashpoint.