A collection of honored images from this year’s competition celebrating “photography beneath the surface of the ocean, lakes, rivers and even swimming pools” ...

INGV and FiberCop have signed a memorandum of understanding to use fiber optics as a distributed sensor for seismic and ...

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that dwarfs even the Grand Canyon. Known as the King’s Trough Complex, this ...

The stone apparently contributed to the ship’s demise. Based on the testimony of the first mate - the only one of eight on board the Clough to survive the sinking - the ship was blown over by a sudden ...

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor.

A new study calculated that an unusual recent twist in the warming and cooling cycle that includes El Niño and its ...

Scientists on the AKMA3 ocean expedition discovered an exceptional underwater feature consisting of a mud volcano in the middle of a large crater 80 miles south of Norway's Bear Island. The volcano ...

When tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini, the cause wasn’t just shifting tectonic plates—it was rising magma. Scientists tracked about 300 million cubic meters of molten rock pushing up ...

Hidden in the Pacific, two very different volcanoes are forcing scientists to rethink what counts as “biggest.” Tamu Massif, ...

More than one million giant, leathery skate egg capsules from a deep-sea ray-like fish have been documented incubating at a single underwater volcanic site off Canada’s Pacific coast. The ...

Most of what we know about the ocean just skims the surface, literally. We’ve gathered a large quantity of data on the oceans from satellites, but most of that is based on the top layer of water.