The discovery of trash at the base of Emden Deep reveals a sad truth: Our actions reach the ocean's deepest trenches. With so much at stake, the charge for ocean exploration has never been more …

Ocean exploration is the search for ocean creatures, ecosystems and other discoveries to increase our understanding of the ocean. The information gathered helps us understand how climate and weather …

A number of them have been discovered recently, including a small primate in Africa called the pygmy galago; an enormous spider guaranteed to give you nightmares; and scores of fish and other sea …

Jacques-Yves Cousteau inspired an entire generation to take an interest in the deep sea and was one of the first to warn of the peril of its destruction.

Point is, one could argue that the deep sea is a mysterious place, primed to throw curveballs our way — like the Baltic Sea anomaly, an unusual and unidentified object that a group of Swedish treasure …

The Atlantic Ocean meets the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America at Cape Horn, but ocean currents are constantly flowing around the globe and, yes, the waters of the world's oceans do mix. …

The Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia is the deepest hole in the world. It's deeper than the Mariana Trench and deeper than Mt. Everest is tall. Why did the Russians dig this deep, and why did they stop?

Jammal's so-called ark wood was a fake, and he concocted his story. Back at the Black Sea, in 1999, famed underwater explorer Robert Ballard, who found the sunken Titanic, set out to prove the …