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 ...

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 ...

And that, in turn, means that the organisms in the marine snow may emit more waste and therefore store less carbon on the ocean floor than accounted for by existing models used to study the planet ...

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

A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

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 ...