Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less well known than the surfaces of Mars, Mercury or Venus and that charting the depth and shape of the seabed will help understand the impact ...

and north through the Pacific Ocean. Running along the top of this chain of mountains is a deep crack, called a rift valley. It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two ...

The world's largest volcano has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. The volcano, 1,600 kilometres east of Japan and called the Tamu Massif, is the size of the British Isles.

Oceanographers explored an area around the Pacific Ocean’s Nazca Ridge and found a massive underwater mountain. Using a sonar ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute of California filmed the never-before-seen seamount, which stretches 1.9 miles towards the surface from the Pacific Ocean floor and features a thriving ...

It's the second sunfish to be found dead on the beach in a small region of northwestern Oregon this summer, following the discovery of an even rarer hoodwinker sunfish Sarah Kuta Kayakers spotted ...

Comprehensive, precision-laser surveys, conducted via aircraft over the tiny Pacific island of Temwen ... would be expected from the underlying topography.' LiDAR remote sensing technology ...

Stupendously rare footage of a bigfin squid, known for its alien-like appearance and unbelievably long tentacles, has been ...

By Eric Lipton An election over the future of a United Nations-affiliated organization could determine whether the Pacific Ocean floor will soon be mined for metals used in electric vehicles.

With some estimating that billions of balls are lost annually around the world, efforts are being made to tackle this ...

Oceanographers explored an area around the Pacific Ocean’s Nazca Ridge and ... Of the 71 percent of the Earth’s surface that is ocean floor, only 26 percent of it has been mapped with the ...