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 ...

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

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 ...

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

On a cruise to the East Pacific Rise, scientists around Monika Bright from the University of Vienna, Austria, and Sabine Gollner from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research have discovered ...

Scientists have uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath the seafloor, revealing a previously unknown but thriving ecosystem. Researchers made ...

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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 ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered beneath the Pacific Ocean, where it has seemingly hovered in a sort of mid-dive for ...