China has long been accused of using its research vessels for reconnaissance mission. Despite Indias concern, China continues ...

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

This steep New Zealand hike has you meandering through forests, climbing a mountain and watching dolphins glide by.

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

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A Newsweek map tracks the movement of the oldest operational United States naval ship in the South Pacific Ocean, where Chinese warships recently conducted a show of force. USS Blue Ridge, a U.S ...

These underwater mountains affect ocean currents and can create nutrient-rich areas that attract marine life. "We won’t get the full ship-based mapping done by" 2030, Sandwell said.

The image below shows a bathymetric map of the ocean floor, where pink denotes the shallowest water (continental shelves and oceanic plateaus), compared with the yellow-green of mid-ocean ridges ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed.

Using satellite altimetry data from SWOT, scientists have created a global map of marine gravity, uncovering thousands of new seamounts. (Eötvös is a unit that measures the ocean’s vertical gravity ...

The 28-day expedition to this submerged mountain - part of the Pacific's Nazca Ridge - found 20 brand-new undersea creatures, including a 'squat lobster' and a rare blue octopus.

The team mapped a 1.9-mile tall seamount, which is part of the Nazca Ridge, an underwater mountain range in the southeast Pacific Ocean. The potentially new species, which have yet to be ...