Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

The Mississippi River is more than 1,800 miles from the Pacific Ocean, but the two major bodies of water have both been ...

China has tested an autonomous deep-sea robot capable of drilling and monitoring inside seabed strata during a South China ...

Discover the intriguing phenomenon of 1,300 flawless circles etched into the sea floor. This captivating underwater mystery has sparked curiosity among scientists and explorers alike. What could have ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

A new study has, for the first time, recorded and measured just how fast microplastics move through the gut passage of a key zooplankton species in real time—and used those measurements to estimate ...

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences retrieved 13 underwater monitoring structures from the deep reefs off the Pacific island of Guam, which have been gathering data there at depths up ...

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Diel vertical migrations in the ocean play a key role in predator-prey dynamics and the functioning of the biological carbon pump.

On December 22, President Trump announced a new class of “battleships” that will be 100 times more powerful than previous battleships and larger than any other surface combatant on the oceans. The ...