In an extraordinary discovery made in 2022, a deep-sea expedition led by the Ocean Exploration Trust aboard the E/V Nautilus uncovered a breathtaking and mysterious formation at the bottom of the ...

Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.

Tharp’s maps, and the evidence they provided, became a cornerstone of the modern understanding of geology. Her work proved ...

A new study reveals that less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually recorded, exposing major gaps in ocean ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, ...

Despite covering most of Earth's surface and providing crucial resources, the deep ocean remains largely unseen and ...

As the magma cooled it forced the existing sea-floor away from the Rift on either side. This theory accounted for and united several separate puzzles in marine geology: the youth of the ocean ...

canyons and complex ocean floor geology under the mud,” says Arai. The origins of his project date back to 2011, when a research team from the University of Tokyo reported abundant rare-earth ...

That predictability has made Gofar an ideal place to study earthquake mechanisms, with a variety of data collected at the fault, including a number of small earthquakes measured on ocean bottom ...