If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ... There was another catch: because of the Cold War, the ...

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

Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less ... But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added. The project is a collaboration between ...

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 deep into the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Chile margin, the region is ...

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 ...

which are like hot springs on the ocean's floor. Before this discovery, which was published on Tuesday in the Nature Communications journal, it was thought that only microbes and viruses could ...

The Maldives has confirmed that a Chinese ocean research vessel, known to map the seabed for ... that the research vessels study ocean floor topography to help with Chinese submarines operations.

The isopods also have little hooked claws at the ends of their legs. These make the animal more stable on the ocean floor. But are you a deep-sea enthusiast? Explore the inky depths in our expert-led, ...

And that, in turn, means that the organisms in the marine snow may emit more waste and therefore store less carbon on the ocean floor than accounted for by existing models used to study the planet ...

The Kexue, seen in 2019, is one of China’s vessels for exploring deep waters. The ocean floor is shaping up to be the next theater of global resource competition. (Zhang Jinggang/Imaginechina/AP ...

Courtesy of Town of Nantucket Harbormaster GE Vernova, headquartered in Cambridge, told the Nantucket Select Board Chair that they dispatched two vessels to retrieve debris from the ocean floor on ...