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

“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge ...

Healy’s crew and the science teams conducted multiple scientific and seafloor mapping missions, which resulted in the ...

The discovery came as scientists from different organizations were aboard the Healy, one of two polar-class Coast Guard ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) and embarked science teams completed the first two phases of the icebreaker’s 2024 Arctic Fall deployment Sunday and continue operations offshore of western and ...

An international team of scientists is reconstructing the impact of the 2008 Chaitén volcanic eruption on the marine ...

The location was a “heavily sedimented” extinct volcano in the Palau National Marine Sanctuary, about 4,700 miles southwest ...

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 ...

According to the National Park Service’s website, 779 lighthouses remain standing across the United States. Though many say ...