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

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 ...

Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, a drop in ocean crust production may have lowered sea level by 26 to 32 meters.

A reduction in seafloor spreading millions of years ago may have led to deeper ocean basins and a significant sea level drop.

Organisms in the deep sea rely on gravity flows to lay down sediment and then make burrows beneath the seafloor, according to a new study.

It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 miles long. The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa, through the Indian Ocean, between Australia and ...

To map the whole ocean floor by the end of this decade ... Vescovo has been thinking about mapping the seafloor for a long time. He’s mostly known for an incredibly long list of exploration ...

The remote South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic are a perfect place to find new and rarely seen species, and a Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition in the region is finding many of those species ...