The Cascadian Subduction Zone is a large strike-slip fault off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. That’s where two of the ...

A neutrino sensor array, ARCA, lines the Mediterranean seafloor near Sicily. A physicist took ARCA’s first huge win to a warm audience at the Neutrino 2024 conference. The highly energetic neutrino ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides scientists with a powerful new tool for ...

One of the most potent greenhouse gas emissions has been discovered seeping out of cracks of the Antarctic sea floor, ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown—an ...

Scientists found patches on the Antarctic seafloor called "seeps" where fluid and gas move up through sediments and into the ...

A new report by the European Union's marine monitoring service has found that the waters off Nova Scotia have been gradually ...

Scientists may have uncovered an unexpected lifeline beneath the Atlantic Ocean: vast reservoirs of freshwater hidden below ...

In a significant incident off the coast of Heard Island, Australia's RSV Nuyina icebreaker made contact with the ocean floor, raising concerns about safety and operational integrity. The event ...

Underneath the ocean floor, around 50 miles south of Nantucket, there’s a freshwater aquifer — a pocket of water that has been there for somewhere between 20,000 and 1 million years. And this summer a ...

Antarctic icebreaker RSV Nuyina has headed to deeper waters off remote Heard Island in the Southern Ocean while assessments ...

Until 1957, most of the public believed that the bottom of the ocean was a flat featureless expanse of sand, stretching endlessly around the globe. Then the first relief map of the Atlantic Ocean ...