This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

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

The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, has revealed the existence of nearly 100,000 submerged ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...

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

British Geological Survey maps are poised to aid conservation of one of the largest marine-protected areas in the world ...

In a new study, Chinese researchers used cyclostratigraphy to date the emergence of the first animals, suggesting that oxygen pulses played a role in their evolution.

Google Maps is the most popular app with more than a billion active users monthly. It uses various icons and symbols to represent various places. Every symbol and icon used on Google Maps and what ...

Google Maps is one of the apps that gets the most love from Google in terms of regular updates, and we've spotted another couple of upgrades rolling out to the mapping app in recent days ...

Google Maps now shows parking difficulty, gas savings, and arrival time in the route overview window itself. It saves you the time and effort you'd otherwise spend digging through the app for ...

potentially increasing the number of known seamounts from 44,000 to 100,000. Global data from the SWOT satellite. Image credits: NASA. We might rightfull ask ourselves why bother to map underwater ...

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 ...