Due to the costs and the technology needed to explore at vast depths, only a few countries are equipped to scan the ocean floor. These countries include the United States, Japan, New Zealand ...

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock ...

A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. Justine Calma is a senior science reporter ...

you can only see a very tiny bit of the deep sea floor at any one time," says Katy Croff Bell of the nonprofit Ocean Discovery League, who led this new research. Sponsor Message She personally has ...

The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ocean floor off the coast of Chile, where deep marine vents emit ...

Vast expanses of the sea floor remain where the only information available is from rough mapping tools, such as sonar, Bell says. “The Indian Ocean is one of the least-explored areas.” ...

Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO at Terradepth, a startup that is working to both map more of the ocean floor while also building a platform to make that data more accessible and easy to use.

Don’t expect that percentage to change anytime soon, either. The study’s authors at the Ocean Discovery League in Rhode Island estimate that even if 1,000 remote and piloted deep sea ...

William Brangham: Along certain parts of the ocean floor lie a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in ...