This is how the mountains of the Himalayas in Asia were formed. Image caption, Tectonic plates on the Earth's surface. Tectonic plates are also at work under the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of forcing ...

The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, has revealed the existence of nearly 100,000 submerged ...

Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains For decades, ...

Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor ... of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...