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 and shape of the seabed will help understand the impact ...

Study Reveals Acceleration in Pacific Upper-Ocean Circulation Over Past 30 Years, Impacting Global Weather Patterns Oct. 31, 2024 — A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper ...

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.

Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...

Cooler Pacific ocean temperatures could bring wetter conditions in the north and drier in the south and the potential for snow.

Video: Experts on red alert for mega-earthquake off the US coast - after discovering a crack in 600-mile long fault line at the bottom of ... at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean could trigger ...

a volcanically active ridge on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, in July of 2023. There, they sent a remotely operated robot on a series of dives to a hydrothermal vent site located 8,251 feet below ...

A "community" has been uncovered in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers have found ... located where two tectonic plates meet on the floor, according to a paper published Tuesday in ...

Japan’s surveyors hope to find promising deposits of rare minerals in mud found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But with the Pacific Ocean’s seafloor amounting to 165 million square ...

The study by Sweetman et al reveals that the life-giving gas can be generated on the ocean floor, where there is no sunlight and photosynthesis is not possible. The discovery was made on a stretch of ...

What happens to a spacecraft once it dies? When a spacecraft completes its mission or runs out of fuel, it's sent to what NASA calls a Spacecraft Cemetery. Three thousand miles off the Eastern ...