The U.S. push to mine international waters for metals defies global efforts to control and protect these fragile ecosystems.

A new autonomous underwater vehicle is helping scientists understand some of the planet’s least explored regions. <br /><br ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

Amanda Dedicatoria described towering hydrothermal vents rising from the ocean floor like underwater skyscrapers. Just hours ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The largest ocean basin is the Pacific, followed by the Atlantic, Indian, Southern and the ...

Deep within the mysterious abyss of the Pacific Ocean lies one of Earth’s most extreme environments—the Pacific Trench system. These vast underwater canyons, plunging to depths of over 10,000 meters, ...

The Pacific Trench system comprises several interconnected deep marine trenches spanning the Pacific Ocean, including the famous Mariana Trench—the deepest point on Earth at approximately 11,000 ...

A Chinese vessel is suspected of mapping the seafloor around U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand to support submarine ...

The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through. These trenches mark areas where continental plates collide in what are known as ...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has funded a mathematician to advance acoustic technologies to map the uncharted expanses of the planet’s ocean floor. Part of the ONR’s Basic and Applied Scientific ...