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

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

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

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

By surveying the same areas regularly, researchers can identify, map, and monitor deep sea ecosystems and their inhabitants .

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 ...

Nov. 8, 2024 — New research reveals for the first time how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been subjected to increased melting by warming ocean waters over the last four decades. Scientists say ...

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 ...

The 300-plus-year-old glass onion bottles were discovered from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, located off the coast of ...

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 ...

Scientists studying a remote part of the ocean floor off the coast of Central and South America say they've made an extraordinary discovery 2,500 metres below sea level — a diverse ecosystem of ...