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 say ...

Hydrothermal vents are cracks in the ocean floor that release hot, mineral-rich water into the deep sea. They form when seawater seeps into Earth’s crust in areas where tectonic plates are eithe ...

The team did their investigation about 8,250 feet (2,515 meters) beneath the sea on a stretch of ocean floor they nicknamed the Fava Flow Suburbs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. “Our discovery ...

In summer 2023, researchers deployed a remotely-operated underwater vehicle called SuBastian to investigate hydrothermal ...

The discovery of a world-wide undersea mountain range that has a deep fissure down its center has suggested to some geologists that the earth may be slowly expanding rather than contracting ...

A volcanically active ridge, the extensive rise occurs where two tectonic plates meet on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor ...

a big group of spherical artificial eyeballs that may help us detect featherlight neutrino particles from under the ocean. These ‘eyeballs’ are encased in a sphere, and then those spheres are ...

The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ocean floor off the coast of Chile, where deep marine vents emit ...

Giant isopods also have very large eyes in comparison to their body too,' explains Miranda. The isopods also have little hooked claws at the ends of their legs. These make the animal more stable on ...

In Florida, swaths of coral paint a colorful landscape across the ocean floor and serve a key role ... beneath the surface and felt a sense of relief: On this November morning, they were finally ...

The ocean floor can be flat or it can have caves and mountains. The weather can be very extreme on the oceans. There can be very high winds and huge waves.