A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but ...

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 ...

A flurry of tropical cyclone activity over the past two weeks in the eastern Pacific Ocean just off the west coast of Mexico has produced three named storms so far — with more storms expected ...

For nearly five decades, more than 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the icy depths of the northeast ...

And yet, Pacific Islanders’ calls for urgent action to restore our greatest climate ally, the ocean, continue to be met with half-measures and empty promises.

A deep-sea training and engineering dive off the coast of San Diego provided an opportunity for never-before-seen imagery of the U.S. Navy submarine USS F-1, lost at sea in an accident on December ...

NASA has created the most detailed map of the ocean floor to date Via X / @NASAEarth Francisco Fernández Actualizado a 10/04/2025 10:35 EDT ...

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

PARIS: In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners — and huge numbers of strange and rare animals almost entirely unknown to science.

With a 5-mile (8 kilometers) resolution and 21-day path covering most of the planet, just one year of data from SWOT gives a clearer picture of the ocean floor than 30 years of data collectively ...