The force of the blast rippled through the entire ship, and even the sailors at the bow nearly 200 feet away instantly understood that their vessel would soon be on the ocean floor. As the crew ...

The studio—a large space with a skylight—has a gray floor and white walls and seems ... Like so much conceptual art, it seems little more than a diagram of some pre-conceived moral.

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to jump-start mining on the ocean floor. Large-scale deep sea ...

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

According to an article published by the Farmingdale Observer, the team has released the most detailed map to date of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT satellite (Surface Water and Ocean ...

The most common trigger for tsunamis is large earthquakes that occur beneath or near the ocean floor, but landslides, volcanic eruptions, specific weather events, and meteorite impacts can also ...

That’s how it can act as a durable record of deep-Earth processes that unfolded long before the ocean floor around it even existed. This discovery also casts doubt on a long-standing idea in ...

This isn’t the first time scientists have found thriving ecosystems in seemingly inhospitable parts of the ocean. For decades, marine biologists have studied hydrothermal vents—essentially ...

After a range of high-tech gear has been installed and fine-tuned — including multi-beam sonar to map the ocean floor, laboratories that chill water to re-create conditions found in extreme ...

Prior research has shown that millions of tons of plastics are piling up in the environment, including on the ocean floor. Because of this, scientists have been looking for better, biodegradable ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT ...