During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.