This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius.

Retired research scientist Vincent Lyne believes he has pinpointed the wreckage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight ...

The effort hopes to discover the remains of Malaysian Flight 370, which vanished from radar in 2014 with 239 people on board.

It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

Swirling vortexes of the Agulhas rings stand out in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic. ECCO offers researchers a way to run ...

A map showing the new search area ... MH370 have been found when they washed ashore on islands in the western Indian Ocean. Despite prior searches being unsuccessful in locating the flight's ...

Their collaboration included an Indian Ocean map, published by National Geographic in 1967, and a 1977 World Ocean Floor map that is now held at the Library of Congress. After Heezen died in 1977 ...

“Currently, there is no standardized seagrass map for the [Western Indian Ocean] region, and the ecosystem is not widely included in management or policy,” Stacy Baez, a senior officer with ...