Across a matter of days in 2024, the seafloor in part of the Indian Ocean dropped by about 13 feet, and roughly 5.7 billion ...

Australia's ocean territory is vast and covers an area more than 1.5 times the nation's landmass. Within these waters is a ...

A deep ocean whale graveyard is revealing new clues about whale evolution and the ecosystems that form around their remains.

The seafloor suddenly ripped open between Australia and Antarctica, and scientists captured every violent second as magma surged from below. More than two-thirds of Earth’s surface was built this way, ...

At other intersections, they come apart, prompting magma to burble forth and harden, forming a new layer of ocean floor — ...

AI illustration of an underwater volcanic eruption at a mid-ocean ridge. Credit: GR Archive Scientists have captured, for the first time, a real-time recording of the ocean floor as it splits apart ...

The ocean floor is constantly growing, forged by magmas and stretched by tectonic forces at mid-ocean ridges (MORs). Yet despite their importance, these submarine boundaries remain among the hardest ...

The first-known direct observations of a seafloor spreading event at a mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean are presented in ...

Earlier study of the region had shown that the spreading in the area occurs at an average rate of a bit over 60 millimeters a ...

Florida has quietly pulled off one of the most ambitious underwater mapping efforts in the country. State officials say airborne LiDAR flights are now complete, and most of the vessel-based sonar work ...

Mother Ocean Day is Saturday, May 9, so here’s a few facts about our waters. About 71% of the Earth’s surface is water-covered, and the oceans hold about 96.5% of all Earth’s water. Water also exists ...