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 ...

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 ...

Mapping the topographic shape of the seafloor is called bathymetry (from the Greek words bathýs deep and métron measure). And there are still many gaps in the bathymetric maps of the world's oceans.

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

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

Map of discovered munitions Considering ... so that the European seafloor and those around the world may one day be less riddled with UXO and other symptoms of humankind’s follies.

Giant tubeworms, which are known as the world's heftiest worms and can grow to several feet long, are living with snails and other worms underneath the shallow seafloor crust in an area known as ...

The team used the SuBastian robotic explorer to drill small holes into rocks on the seafloor and lift them up. The ROV’s arm flipped over a small chunk of the volcanic crust, revealing cavities ...

A survey conducted using sonar and undersea robots has discovered a World War II-era munitions dump on the seafloor off California, researchers reported. Oceanographers with the Scripps ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have uncovered an underworld of animal life thriving beneath the seafloor. An expedition to a volcanically active ridge in the Pacific off South ...