Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The recent paper's case for green oceans in the Archaean eon starts with an observation: waters around the Japanese volcanic ...

It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by ...

Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains For decades, ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously known.

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

A U.K. startup wants to be the SpaceX of the deep sea, and hopes to establish a permanent human residence on the ocean floor ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to ...