NASA recently released a ground-breaking global map of the ocean floor, primarily powered by data from the SWOT satellite ...

I know space gets a lot of press as the final frontier, but for my money, the ocean is the bigger mystery – and it’s a lot closer to home. Experts estimate there could be thousands of species down ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown — an ...

Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from... Why mapping the entire seafloor is a daunting task, but ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, is pioneering automated electric vessels to map the ocean floor and improve search and rescue missions.Andrew March, senior technical staff, said ...

Global map showing gravitational variations caused by topographic changes. In purple higher features like seamounts and in green lower features like rift zones. There are better maps of the Moon’s ...

Scientists have discovered a massive deep-sea coral reef system off the coast of Argentina that may be one of the largest on ...

A group of researchers from the University of New Hampshire uncovered sunken World War II history. The group recently returned from a 21-day expedition surveying and mapping the ocean floor around the ...

Facility will advance ocean exploration, promote public-private partnershipsThe University of New Hampshire has broken ground on a new 70,500-square foot building that will house the Center of ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to ...