In a groundbreaking discovery, Spanish researchers have unveiled a massive underwater mountain off the coast of Lanzarote, ...

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

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously known.

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

potentially increasing the number of known seamounts from 44,000 to 100,000. These underwater mountains stick up into the water, influencing deep sea currents. This can concentrate nutrients along ...

A fascinating discovery off the coast of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, has unveiled a submerged mountain that may be ...

The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), located in the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific Ocean, is the largest ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South ...

NASA created an animation, posted above ... of the ocean floor — whose water, by the way, covers about 70 percent of the planet. Because they're smaller than seamounts, past satellites have ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar technology — sound waves that bounce off the bottom — to measure depth. But the ...

To this end, the sea floor at islands and underwater mountains, so-called seamounts ... and interactions of animals in the water column (mesopelagic zone) and on the sea floor (benthic zone), as well ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the newly discovered structures.