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

The Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber was trapped inside the USS Yorktown with this bomb still attached to its cradle. The ...

The hull descended in a straight line and is largely still intact—the scan shows it neatly wedged into the ocean floor. The stern, on the other hand, is shattered, and researchers have never ...

Scientists recently discovered a strange golden orb at the bottom of the ocean. Now, this intriguing find has sparked a lot ...

A team of geoscientists from Leicester are part of an expedition aiming to discover "ancient" fresh water beneath the ...

Being a geophysicist can sometimes feel like being a detective —uncovering clues, and then building a case based on the evidence.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That timeline fit perfectly with a mysterious mountain-building phase seen in the geology of that region ... that unfolded long before the ocean floor around it even existed.

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory. As part of an ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and ...

The ocean floor remains one of the last unexplored areas of the planet. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, only 26.1% of the global sea floor had been mapped with ...