A fleet of 30 research and exploration vessels is to sail off the French coastal city of Nice, marking World Oceans Day and the opening of the third United Nations Ocean Conference ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling ...

The deep sea remains one of the most mysterious and least explored places on Earth. Home to countless unknown species and ...

For the longest time, human scientific exploration has been confined to the Earth’s outermost solid layer: the crust. This crust has an average thickness of about 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), though it ...