How Deep Is the Ocean? The short answer is that it depends on where you look. Near the world's coastlines ... and 6,000 meters (1.85 to 3.7 miles) down. It is the largest, flattest, deepest ...

In some parts of the ocean surface waters which are in contact with the atmosphere warm up and absorb CO2 before being pulled rapidly down into the deep ocean in a 'ventilation process'.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral ... This is where on the boundary of two converging tectonic plates, one descends down into Earth's mantle, creating a deep trough.

A four-member crew, including NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left the ISS early Tuesday on ...

In some parts of the ocean surface waters which are in contact with the atmosphere warm up and absorb CO2 before being pulled rapidly down into the deep ocean in a 'ventilation process'.

Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea, beyond the reach of daylight ... The problem with any deep-ocean animal is that not much is known about their lives.

More than 90 percent of the creatures living in the ocean have yet to ... but scrunched down on the end and less obvious. That similar-but-different look reinforced the idea that the pigbutt ...