Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explo… ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

A brilliant map showed just how big the Pacific Ocean is. The Ocean, which is around 32 percent of the planet’s total surface area and 46 percent of its water surface, covers 165.25 million ...

Figure 1: Contour plots of relative abundances with depth of bacteria and pelagic crenarchaeota during a 1-yr sampling effort at the Hawai'i Ocean Time-series station, ALOHA, in the North Pacific ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big?Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...

Both Sager and Neal suspect that the Ontong Java Plateau in the southwestern Pacific Ocean — which is the size of Alaska, even larger than Shatsky Rise — contains a massive volcano that could ...

Called Pontus, the 'mega-plate' was once 15 million square miles, about a quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean, report experts at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Haidou 1’s mission is to explore the ocean floor. Photo: Weibo The Challenger Deep is the deepest area in the Mariana Trench and also the deepest known point of the Earth’s surface, with a ...

World demand for rare-earth elements and the metal yttrium is rapidly increasing. An analysis of more than 2,000 seafloor sediment samples suggests that deep-sea mud constitutes a highly promising ...