On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of 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 ...

Finding anything at the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth, is extremely exciting for scientists.

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 ...

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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 ...

If the street this house sits on is named after a seabird — as is pretty much every other street in the neighborhood — then the Atlantic Ocean can ... This floor has electric baseboard ...

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 ...

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 ...