Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research using data from SWOT is ...

“Tharp’s work certainly provided evidence and weight to the theory of plate tectonics, but her work is really about seafloor ...

Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of pulling up sulfide deposits. What would soon become unclear, however, was why ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

The maps from SWOT—a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency—provide a more comprehensive view of seafloor structures such as abyssal hills and seamounts which shape ocean ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of long-lost seafloor below the Pacific Ocean, which could rewrite Earth's history. They discovered remnants of an ancient seafloor that is likely a piece of a ...

This supported the theory that Harry Hess had put forth, that the ocean progressivley widens as new sea floor is created along a crack that follows the crest of midocean ridges. In 1966 ...

Some of the species recorded on the seafloor are believed to be hundreds of years old, researchers said. ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away ...

recent scientific drilling and seismic testing found indications that oil source rocks containing large percentages of organic rich sediments cover the entire Arctic Ocean seafloor. Arctic Oil ...