For decades, humanity has gazed at the stars, dreaming of Mars and the Moon, while a vast and mysterious frontier has remained largely unexplored right here on Earth—the ocean floor. Despite covering ...

Plastics are piling up all around us, and now, scientists say, they're also piling up on the ocean floor. New research estimates that up to 11 million metric tons (more than 12 tons) of plastic ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

Explorers know that the Earth’s oceans are vast, covering about 71% of the surface of the globe. According to a new study, just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has been visually observed. The deep ocean ...

Carbon storage in Earth’s oceans is controlled by deep-sea mixing processes, but the details have proved difficult to test. Ambitious efforts to track ocean mixing using dye have now demonstrated the ...

A sample of ocean crust, turned upside down, reveals tubeworms and other organisms. Mónika Naranjo-Shepherd / Schmidt Ocean Institute CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 In summer 2023, researchers deployed a ...

Daphne, Phoebe, Iris and Pasithea demonstrated how marine mammals can help scientists understand mysterious places that humans may never visit. By Kate Golembiewski Around much of the planet, an ...

Below the waters of the Cook Islands, population 15,000, lie minerals used to power electric cars. Extracting them could bring riches, but many say it’s a bad idea. By Pete McKenzie Reporting from ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their formation. This makes them extremely important in climate research. This led ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. A NASA and CNES satellite lets ...