In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown — an ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered two well-preserved onion glass bottles from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean off the ...

There are moons circling the planets Jupiter and Saturn where oceans have been detected under deep layers of ice. Scientists like Lauren Seyler have wondered if life can be found deep below an ocean ...