The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the ...

Discover the National Marine Sanctuary System — 18 underwater parks protecting coral reefs, shipwrecks, whales, and America’s ...

These floating barriers hold back the Antarctic Ice Sheet’s expansive ice flows, and their disappearance directly ties to ...

Resting 135 feet underwater, the Northwestern looms out of the depths of Lake Huron looking almost as if it’s ready to set ...

Russia may be using the wreck of a Baltic Sea ferry that sank in 1994 for espionage and military exercises, a new report says ...

Archaeologists have discovered by chance what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 1.5 miles underwater off southern France, the deepest such find in its section of the ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Lake Huron sits on the border between the U.S. and Canada, and its closest state is Michigan. The freshwater lake features state parks, great fishing and underwater shipwreck preserves. Dozens of ...

Considered the world’s richest shipwreck, the San Jose was found off the coast of Colombia in 2015. New research into the gold coins now scattered on the ocean floor offered insights into the ...

The 144-foot-long "F.J. King," which sank in Lake Michigan in 1886, was known as a "ghost ship" that nobody could locate ...

Underwater archaeologists dug under 20 feet of sand and rock off the coast of Sicily and found a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. Researchers date the find to either the fifth or sixth century B.C. Six ...

Hidden beneath the sea, the ancient world continues to surprise us. In this video, we count down the Top 10 Underwater ...