The scientific research ship JOIDES Resolution on an expedition to the southwest Indian Ocean in 2015. Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong via Getty Images My favorite place in the world isn’t a fixed location.

Recent scientific expeditions have unveiled a trove of new species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, including a carnivorous “death ball” sponge in the Southern Ocean. In a separate deep-sea ...

The research vessel "Tara" departed for an 18-month expedition in the western Pacific. The team on board will study how to slow the global loss of coral. One of the project's scientific directors is ...

Can you imagine sailing the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean to the frigid waters of Greenland? This summer, about 40 graduate students and faculty from Portugal, Norway, Greenland, and the U.S. are ...

The International Indian Ocean Expedition was first proposed at a joint meeting of the Special Committee of Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) in 1958, ...

A Mexican marine biologist was seriously injured after he was attacked by a shark while working off Costa Rica's Pacific coast and transferred to a hospital in the country's capital on Monday, ...

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of Japan behaved so unusually as it lifted the seafloor and produced a tsunami ...