Evidence shows that hunter-gatherers were crossing at least 100 kilometers (km) of open water to reach the Mediterranean island of Malta 8,500 years ago, a thousand years before the arrival of the ...

New archaeological finds in Malta add to an emerging theory that early Stone Age humans cruised the open seas.

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The books hail from Clairvaux Abbey, founded in 1115 by Cistercian monks in northern France, and its daughter monasteries. Some tomes are nearly 900 years old. Researchers had thought they were ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

Colum McCann's new novel, Twist, tracks a group at sea tasked with repairing the underwater cables through which we all ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

Feast your senses on the natural surroundings at the Hudson Valley’s most beautiful restaurants, from 160-acre estates, to ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

Little cottages and beach houses nestle among shore pines that grow at crazy angles from years of ocean winds. Some of the ...