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 ...

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 ...

As the world's ocean economy grows in coming years ... But there was still around 293 million square kilometers of ocean floor to map, he added. The project is a collaboration between Japan's ...

Geoscience Australia will play an active role in supporting Seabed 2030’s mission of accelerating ocean floor mapping.

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

Before you get in the water this summer, remember there's a lot going on under the sea we don't yet know about.

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 ...

This is the point at which the Nazca and Antarctic plates are subducted beneath the South American plate. Where the two former plates meet a ridge runs perpendicular to the subduction zone; it's the ...

Geographically, this ocean is divided into five distinct regions, commonly called the world's oceans. These oceans, while connected, have been named and recognised for their unique geographic and ...