We’ve only mapped about 25 percent of the sea floor, but a recent push by NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to shine a light into that darkness has been illuminating ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate ...

Scientists say the topography of the ocean floor is less well known than the surfaces of Mars, Mercury or Venus and that charting the depth and shape of the seabed will help understand the impact ...

This is Indian Ocean topography showing the location of Mauritius as part of a chain of progressively older volcanoes extending from the presently active hot-spot of Réunion toward the 65-million ...

Although we have only mapped around 25% of the sea bottom, NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite has recently made a significant effort to shed light on that area, and it has been ...