In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

A new global map of the world's oceans is so visually stunning that it could be mistaken for art. The paintlike swirls of the visualization, which was released earlier this month by Los Alamos ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge stands out in glorious detail on this map of the Atlantic Ocean Floor by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp. Painted by Heinrich C. Berann, ...

Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explo… ...

They lived and worked with the crew last month as it mapped the Atlantic Ocean floor 1,500 feet below on an 186-foot research vessel off the coast of South Carolina.