though Tharp often remained in the background. Heezen collected sonar data from ships that crossed the Atlantic Ocean. At the ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

How did life start on Earth? The answer is a big scientific mystery scientists are actively investigating. After talking with ...

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 ...

According to highly cited conventional models, cooling and a major drop in sea levels about 34 million years ago should have led to widespread continental erosion and deposited gargantuan amounts ...

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 ...

which are like hot springs on the ocean's floor. Before this discovery, which was published on Tuesday in the Nature Communications journal, it was thought that only microbes and viruses could ...

Scientists studying a remote part of the ocean floor off the coast of Central and South America say they've made an extraordinary discovery 2,500 metres below sea level — a diverse ecosystem of ...

Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.

The post warned that plunging waves can slam beachgoers into the ocean floor and that waves can easily knock a person off their feet. A separate system will bring elevated winds to the region ...

At a time when there is a raging debate on regarding how to maintain a balance between economic growth and envi ...

Courtesy of Town of Nantucket Harbormaster GE Vernova, headquartered in Cambridge, told the Nantucket Select Board Chair that they dispatched two vessels to retrieve debris from the ocean floor on ...