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

As the satellite orbits Earth, these overlapping swaths create a two-dimensional map of the planet’s water surface, covering nearly all the world’s oceans as well as large rivers, lakes, and ...

NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.

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

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research using data from SWOT is ...

So how many oceans are there? Four ... Meet the Spilhaus projection, an ocean-centric map of the world's waters. The Coral Triangle is a region of shallow ocean corresponding to the continental ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Around 600 undersea cables carry electricity and information across vast oceans and seas. The majority are data cables ...

Banded iron formations were deposited in the Archean and Paleoproterozoic eons, roughly between 3.8 and 1.8 billion years ago. Life back then was confined to one cell organisms in the oceans. The ...

Rising sea levels could put hundreds of thousands of homes underwater across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic within 25 years, ...