Deep beneath the ocean floor, researchers have found giant frozen waves of sediment. What does this explain about how the ...

The discovery of buried "mud waves" off the coast of western Africa reveals that the Atlantic Ocean was born at least 4 million years earlier than scientists previously thought. These waves, each ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth's oceans are ...

A decades-long study has found that warm circumpolar deep water has moved closer to Antarctica’s continental shelf, threatening the stability of its ice shelves. The research, using ship data, robotic ...

Underneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and ancient world. As demand for sustainable technologies increases, attention is shifting deep beneath the waves. Deep-sea mining is capturing the attention ...

California's meteorologists and oceanographers keep dropping new superlatives about the temperatures in 2026. "There's a ...

I spent years preparing to dive into the deepest place on earth. Only a handful of people have traveled into the depths of the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles below the ocean surface. As a geologist ...