Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and unlocked one of the most significant scientific revolutions of the century.

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are ... Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less well known than the surfaces of Mars, Mercury or Venus and that charting the depth ...

The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic ... Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

The initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says one-fifth of ... instruments that can infer seafloor topography from the way its gravity sculpts the ...

A new report describes the dire state of Earth’s snow and ice, suggesting several major tipping points are likelier than ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far.

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge ...

Almost five years of studying the deep Atlantic in ... say we have better maps of the surface of the Moon and Mars than of the sea floor." "So whenever you go to the deep ocean, you find something ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered ... a photo gallery and interactive map of the division's finds.