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 ...

The water mass, named the Atlantic Equatorial Water, forms along Earth's equator as ocean currents mix separate bodies of water to the north and south.

For decades, scientists have known about “equatorial waters”—masses of ocean that separate waters north and south of the equator—in both the Pacific and Indian oceans. But a similar mass ...

The Titanic wreckage s about 12,500 feet deep in the North Atlantic — that's as deep as about nine Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other.

Four Nigerian stowaways are claiming to have survived a trip across the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil on a cargo ship’s rudder by drinking sea water.

Because of this change, a showdown over this year’s hurricane season is literally heating up in the Atlantic. Hurricanes could feed on that warm ocean water, the anomalies you see in red below.

The students shadowed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists and technicians while they conducted a survey of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

A team of researchers believe they have found a previously unidentified gigantic mass of water in the Atlantic Ocean. Within oceans, there are different bodies of water with their own distinct ...

Researchers have mapped the path of a giant submarine avalanche that tore through the Agadir Canyon — a deep trench in the Atlantic seafloor off the coast of Morocco — 60,000 years ago.

Photos show what looks like a line between the Atlantic and Pacific with different water colors on either side, but is there some kind of barrier or do the two oceans mix?