A groundbreaking studypublished in Nature reveals compelling evidence of a vast ocean trapped deep within the Earth’s mantle, ...

Water changes everything about the way a planet works.” With those words, Graham Pearson, a foremost expert on deep Earth ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening ...

A fleet of ocean robots and instruments has been deployed to explore the depths of the Labrador Sea as part of a year-long ...

The submersible vehicle that was lost at sea is part of a relatively new effort enabling tourists and other paying customers to explore the depths of the ocean, the vast majority of which has ...

So deep that picturing the ocean’s depth in your mind’s eye is somewhat tricky, which is why one YouTuber made an animation to showcase it. The animation was shared on YouTube over a year ago ...

The ocean depths of a habitable Hycean world could ... that these nutrients could be transported through the ice via convection, or delivered to the planet in other ways, like via comet and ...

Still, there are other parts of the ocean that are even deeper, and many parts yet to be explored. About 71% of the Earth is covered in water and the average depth is 12,080 feet — which is ...

The ocean floor is undulating. Covering 70% of Earth’s surface, the average depth of the ocean is 3,682 metres. The lower you go the higher the hydrostatic pressure (the force per unit area ...

But new state-of-the-art observation systems now give scientists a wealth of information down through the depth of the ocean. In a new paper study, published in Nature Climate Change, we assess how ...

It would take nearly 300 years — in the aftermath of the Titanic disaster — before sonar technology began to offer scientists a clearer picture of what lies in the ocean’s depths.