Shallow seas serve as critical transition zones connecting land and the deep ocean, supplying essential resources for ...

For those who like to muck around in boats, there’s enough to worry about without wondering if you’re going to run aground. And there’s really no way to know that other than to work from charts that ...

The top of the atmosphere is the agreed-upon border between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. Satellites traverse this space, facilitating global communications and imaging the planet, measuring ...

The snipe eel (right) and anglerfish illustrate the extremes of body shapes in deep ocean fishes. (Images from Scripps Institute of Oceanography via Oceana.org) The deep ocean is home to many strange ...

A high-tech mapping team from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has produced an incredible new view of one of ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have ...