Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 10 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of April 18.

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by ...

Civilian exploration may be the official mission of a Chinese deep-sea research ship that sailed clockwise around Australia over the past week and is now loitering west of the continent. But maybe ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

Mangroves are on the move, and scientists are tracking their surprising advance into new northern territory. Just as John ...

When a hurricane approaches the U.S., forecasts for high winds and intense rain often grab the attention, but rip currents ...

The ocean covers 71% of Earth's surface, yet we have better maps of the Moon, Mars and Venus than we do of the ocean floor, ...

Producing accurate maps of the ocean floor is ... of navigation and deep-sea current and tides. In the past ships with sonar equipment were used to make extremely detailed studies of the ocean ...