The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

Underwater robots travelled 3,800 meters down to the bed of the Atlantic Ocean to create the ship’s “digital twin.” ...

Scientists say that the geographical North Pole is on the move and could shift nearly 90 feet (27 metres) by 2100.

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

In December 2023, thanks to UNH, the United States grew by one million square kilometers. The U.S. gained that seabed territory beyond 200 nautical miles from our coasts through a geopolitical process ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

It's not often that you hear about sea lions attacking humans, but recently a slew of assaults have occurred in California.

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

They found animal and marine life as deep as nearly 4,300 feet. The species in the newly discovered ecosystem include ...

Scientists have discovered that powerful underwater avalanches are sweeping huge amounts of microplastics into the deep sea, ...