Cartographers at the National Geographic have finally recognised Antarctica's Southern Ocean on their maps, bringing their count of Earth's oceans to five. The society — which has been releasing ...

More than 70% of the Earth's surface is covered in water, according to the U.S. Geological survey and of that water, more than 96% of it is contained in one of earth's five oceans. From the Arctic ...

Our new map of the world’s oceans redraws ocean boundaries according to science, rather than geopolitics. These current-driven boundaries show the true catchment areas of the garbage patches.

There are currently five recognized oceans on Earth: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Antarctic Oceans. The Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean, was the most recent one to ...

An expedition to map the seafloors of the Earth’s five oceans has provided new insights into their precise depths and locations, scientists say. The Five Deeps Expedition explored the “key ...

The diving feat also makes him the first person to dive to the deepest part of all the world's oceans. On Aug. 24, Vescovo descended around to the bottom of the so-called Molloy Deep, a frigid ...

The Five Deeps expedition aims to explore the bottom of each of the world ... The two are heading out in a new $48 million dollar submarine system to better map the bottom of the world's five oceans.

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

In a new mission called Five Deeps, a team of explorers will brave the inhospitable depths of the world’s oceans, observing, mapping, and collecting samples along the way. The explorers aim to ...