The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, has revealed the existence of nearly 100,000 submerged mountains, called seamounts, scattered across the ocean floor. Historically ...

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

The highest peak here is more than 7,500 feet tall. Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become ...

Volcanic eruptions in the middle of tectonic plates, far from any volcanically-active plate boundaries, have created many of the thousands of ocean islands and seamounts that cover Earth's ocean ...