We have identified beaches, cliffs and sand dunes at the flat summit of the seamount,” wrote geologist Luis Somoza to Live ...

Due to the costs and the technology needed to explore at vast depths, only a few countries are equipped to scan the ocean floor. These countries include the United States, Japan, New Zealand ...

Washington - The following five nuclear submarine wrecks have sat on the ocean floor for more than a decade ... 22 May 1968: USS Scorpion sinks east of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean with 99 men ...

This is the body entrusted by a United Nations convention with managing the ocean floor outside of national jurisdictions. Ocean law is largely guided by that accord the United Nations Convention ...

Researchers from Ocean Discovery League analyzed data from around 44,000 deep-sea dives conducted since 1958. Their findings highlight stark limitations in visual exploration. Related Stories ...

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Zeno Power has “ locked in a strontium-90 fuel supply ” from the U.S. Department of Energy, and boasts contracts with the Department of ...

Yet despite decades of exploration, a study published in Science Advances has shown we still don't know what is lurking in 99.999 per cent of the deep ocean. Since 1958, 44,000 dives have only ...

A team of researchers from across the globe set sail this week on a groundbreaking expedition to understand large pockets of fresh groundwater that sit underneath the ocean floor just south of ...

LURKING beneath the ocean's surface are a host of terrifying creatures most humans will only see in their nightmares. Yet, new research has revealed that scientists have observed just 0.001% of ...

The submersible's wreckage was later found scattered across the ocean floor 330 yards from Titanic's bow. The Coast Guard is still investigating the cause of the implosion and is expected to ...

The presence of hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor enhances Enceladus’s potential to support microbial life. Another of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, holds a subsurface ocean beneath a thick ...