Australia's ocean territory is vast and covers an area more than 1.5 times the nation's landmass. Within these waters is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pacific Ocean is home to some of the deepest points on the planet. In fact, four of the top six deepest spots in the world can ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

Deep-sea drilling ships, sea-floor sensors and repurposed Internet cables are helping scientists to study the last unmapped ...

The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven. A new study describes a four ...

Far beneath the surface of the ocean lies the largest and least explored habitat on Earth. The deep sea is cold, dark, highly pressurized—and home to a huge amount of undiscovered life. The first ...