In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

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

High resolution seafloor map of the Havre undersea volcano caldera with lava that erupted in 2012 lavas shown in red. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 10 January 2018 ...

Ocean explorers spotted what looked like a "yellow brick road" to Atlantis in the Pacific Ocean in 2022. Here's what we know ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge deep into the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Chile margin, the region is ...

The collaboration aims to fill gaps in knowledge about the topography of the seafloor and create a comprehensive map of the ocean floor. – Joint press release of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for ...

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 ...

The project is making use of equipment aboard the Healy to gather data and create detailed images of the seafloor and objects ...

Spain is sending a marine research vessel to scan the seafloor off Valencia's coast in hopes of finding vehicles and people ...

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 ...

North Carolina’s coast is short on natural reefs with only 3% covering the seafloor. An artificial reef program aims to ...