On a practical level, the maps can help submarines navigate more safely through previously mysterious ocean terrains. They can also inform the precarious work of laying down and repairing ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

By Abhishyant Kidangoor Where are all the marine animals going? Given the vastness of the oceans, the countless species that ...

After all, the world’s four named oceans are essentially one body of water—and one gigantic drainage basin on a planetary scale. Szucs hopes his maps can help raise awareness of environmental ...

A SpaceX rocket carrying the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP) (AP) — A ...