This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic plate movements.

It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by NASA is working to change that ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far. Scientists say ...

But for two earthquake researchers, they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust structure. Their findings appear today (February 12) in Science. “It’s a nice ...

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped ... of oil and gas deposits probably found there, it needs to map those realms. Exploration and mapping, and making the data ...

Scientists usually map parts of the seabed by using remotely ... the videos provided the researchers with a rare perspective of the ocean floor. The scientists trained a machine learning model ...