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 ...

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 ...

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 ... realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the ...

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 ...

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

Enough heat to keep the ocean liquid, and possibly even drive geothermal activity such as hydrothermal vents at this alien ...

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 ...

A volcanically active ridge, the extensive rise occurs where two tectonic plates meet on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Located along the ridge are hydrothermal vents, or openings in the seafloor ...

Glass bottles over 300 years old have been retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Divers discovered ... transporting treasures from the New World. The 1715 Treasure Fleet was one in ...

For years, scientists and entrepreneurs have experimented with adding iron to the ocean as a method to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. It’s called carbon sequestration.