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With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

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Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

A wealthy bitcoin entrepreneur and three fellow adventurers plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Friday, ...

Fram2 will be the company's first astronaut mission to land in the Pacific Ocean. Its predecessors all splashed down off ...

Mesoscale ocean eddies transport nutrients and energy-rich lipids, helping sustain marine ecosystems far from coasts.