A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...

I n 2022, researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus made a discovery on the floor of the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. While surveying ...

The Arctic Ocean is more than just icy waters, it harbors vibrant ecosystems — but it also harbors valuable oil, gas, and ...

We’ve mapped nearly all of Mars’ surface from orbit, yet we know less about Earth’s ocean floor — almost 75% remains unmapped in high resolution. This terrestrial blind spot is driving NJIT ...

Seagrasses are marine flowering plants that are found in shallow waters in many parts of the world ... Covering only 0.1% of the ocean floor, these seagrass meadows provide food and shelter ...

and has since deployed autonomous underwater vehicles to begin searching the ocean floor where parts of the plane's fuselage could be. Late last year, Kuala Lumpur announced a tentative plan in ...

Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it were floodplains pocked with bogs and ponds that may have restricted ...

DEDHAM, Mass. — A distant ocean storm is expected to “graze” parts of Massachusetts on Thursday, bringing snow to some parts of the state. The biggest impacts from this storm system are expected ...

"Our major discovery here is that life in the deepest parts of our oceans is more diverse than it is in the ocean floor areas that surround these trenches," Virtasalo said. They found evidence of ...

“The Floor” returns for its third season Wednesday night. Trivia-heads will once again be battling it out for respect and big-time bucks. Rob Lowe: “The category is breakfast. You must ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms ... materials are deposited on the sea floor from trench margins above.

The team sampled sediment cores from the Pacific Ocean’s Japan Trench off the coast of Honshu. The group studied the hadal zone—the deepest part of the ocean—at about 4.66 miles (7.5 ...