A new global map of the world's oceans is so visually stunning that it could be mistaken for art. The paintlike swirls of the visualization, which was released earlier this month by Los Alamos ...

Dozens of Chinese research vessels are on a quest to map the sea floor at strategically vital regions of the world's oceans.

Star Trek may have said space is the final frontier — but we actually have a huge patch of unexplored terrain right here on Earth. Ocean maps exist, but they're fuzzy; we've mapped only about 5% of ...

Miles beneath the sea is a landscape of seamounts, hills and ridges, much of it unexplored or hidden under layers of muck. A team of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla ...

With tools like Google Earth at our disposal, we have an understanding of our land masses like never before. With just a few ...

Did you know that 85% of the ocean floor is uncharted? Anthony Everett ships out with the University of New Hampshire students and researchers who are hoping to map it all by 2030. On the Water: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Migration patterns are diverse. Green turtles tend to stay within a single ocean basin for breeding and foraging, while sperm ...

A scuba diver swims in the coral reefs of Palau. Beneath the depths that humans can dive, natural wonder and a better understanding of our planet awaits. Carlos Villoch / Alamy Earth has no shortage ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...