When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

The ancient seafloor challenges existing theories about ... This data allowed them to create a detailed map of this previously unknown structure hiding deep within Earth's mantle, revealing ...

An international team of scientists set sail on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Falkor (too) research vessel in September to trace the volcanic ash’s flow and assess its effects. Along the way, they ...

The seafloor mapping initiative is also benefitting from a global cooperative of scientists who Hoy says are sharing their country’s data and enabling a larger understanding of what lies beneath the ...

Scientists have come up with a new map of the Earth’s seafloor using satellite data, revealing massive underwater scars and thousands of previously uncharted sea mountains residing in some of ...

In its deep, dark waters, ancient shipwrecks are scattered across the seafloor. At first, wreck-spotting was far from the minds of the Maritime Archaeology Project (MAP) team, who started ...

De Ronde’s map revealed a fragment of the ancient deep seafloor in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, created some 3.3 billion ...

The final of the ocean XPRIZE, which will see fleets of robots compete to map the largest area of seafloor inside 24 hours, will take place in deep waters off the coast of Greece. Teams will be ...

The map, and the methods used to create it, were published in Nature journal Scientific Data. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean Version 2 is available here: https://doi.org ...