The crew was testing the feasibility of mining seafloor deposits full of copper and some gold. It was probably the closest thing in the world to an operational deep-sea mining site. And the more I ...

NASA's SWOT satellite has revealed unseen ocean depths, mapping seafloor features that shape life, currents and tectonics.

The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a video this week showing a remarkably clear picture of the bottom of the ...

The International Space Station, weighing in at nearly 1 million ... and then sink to the seafloor. The grand deorbit of the aging laboratory will happen around 2030, and NASA has revealed how.

Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the ...

the largest ever found on the deep seafloor. One of the abyssal plain stations produced 260 times the count at the Mediterranean site. Microplastics generally refer to grains measuring 5 ...