This is Indian Ocean topography showing the location of Mauritius as part of a chain of progressively older volcanoes extending from the presently active hot-spot of Réunion toward the 65-million ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

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

But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new space-based map of the seafloor is changing that. The mission, a collaboration between NASA and the ...